Proposal: jcheck restrict addition of subrepo files

[Chris Hegarty]

On 05/16/2013 04:47 PM, mark.reinhold at oracle.com wrote:
> ...
> The incident to which you refer involved the creation of a directory
> named jdk/test/closed, which conflicts with an Oracle-internal sub-repo
> of closed regression tests.  It wouldn't be appropriate for a .jcheck/conf
> file in an open repo to refer to a private repo, so I don't think this is
> the right approach.

Yes, the problem is with down stream projects of OpenJDK. I don't see 
that the problem is limited to Oracle's sub-repos, but I don't know if 
other projects are overlaying sub-repos. If they are then they could 
specify them also.

> I'm not convinced that it's worth trying to prevent this sort of mistake
> is in jcheck.  As far as I know it's happened only a few times over the
> last seven years.

True, it is not that common. Maybe not worth trying to fix.

Thanks,
-Chris.