Supporting IcedTea7

[Andrew Hughes]

Our support for IcedTea7 seems to be lacking, despite it becoming the primary release (and the only one on Fedora 17 on).
During this release cycle, I've noticed several cases of patches being in IcedTea6 but not in IcedTea7, and developers
on IRC have been hitting basic build issues, despite the release having occurred about four months ago.

I'd like to suggest that we switch to a similar policy to OpenJDK (Dalibor calls it the 'no fix left behind' policy) where
fixes for IcedTea6 have to go into IcedTea7 first.  I think this will make it less likely that things will get missed and
should concentrate people's minds on the new 7 series rather than 6.

To begin with, the ARM port will have to be an exception but I'd also like to see this switch primarily to 7, once it
works there.

Thoughts?
-- 
Andrew :)

Free Java Software Engineer
Red Hat, Inc. (http://www.redhat.com)

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