Picture/Thousand Words

[Brad Wetmore]

Iris,

There was a somewhat lengthy discussion recently on build-dev about the
layout of the various repositories, and how it's been difficult to keep
them straight.

On:

http://openjdk.java.net/guide/repositories.html

You might want to put a quick example in here somewhere that the
toplevel (MASTER) of the openjdk7 project is actually:

      http://hg.openjdk.java.net/jdk7/jdk7

It wasn't really clear that the second jdk7 is the name for MASTER, that
which RE builds.

Also a comment was made which would be a great addition to the guide:

David Herron wrote:

---begin---
I think there is a problem here of trying to describe with words a thing
that's better described with a picture.
...deleted...
I see Kelly's blog [1] has the right picture.  I think that picture
belongs in the developers guide...

[1] http://blogs.sun.com/kto/entry/openjdk_mercurial_wheel
---end---

I've also done a picture for explaining the gatekeeping process in my
own blog [2].

[2]  http://blogs.sun.com/wetmore/entry/you_re_a_gatekeeper_uh

I think we could improve upon that further by addition all of the
subrepositories.  I'll drawn a picture and left the original
on your desk.  If you think it's worth it, we can get someone with
better art skills than I to do the final drawing.  Yes, I know my
handwriting sucks...  ;)

(I tried to post to the alias, but the list only allows attachments up 
to 40kb).

Brad