New submit repo for hotspot changes

[Thomas Stüfe]

Hi Jesper,

just a small question, how close will the syncing between submit-hs and
jdk-hs be?

Best Regards, Thomas

On Tue, Mar 13, 2018 at 2:06 AM, <jesper.wilhelmsson at oracle.com> wrote:

> Hi all HotSpot developers!
>
> There is now a new submit repo available. It is similar to the one created
> a while ago [1], and the usage is the same, but this one is based on and
> synched with the jdk/hs forest. This means that it should now be possible
> for any contributor to run all the required tests for hotspot pushes
> (referred to as hs tier 1) on the latest version of the HotSpot source code.
>
> http://hg.openjdk.java.net/jdk/submit-hs/
>
> The results will still be returned in a mail with limited usage in case of
> a failure, but if all tests pass (and you fulfill the other criteria below)
> you will be ready to push your change. We do no longer require an Oracle
> sponsor to push changes to HotSpot.
>
> The following is not new, but I list it here for completeness.
>
> In order to push a change to HotSpot:
> 0. you must be a Committer in the JDK project.
> 1. you need a JBS issue for tracking.
> 2. your change must have been available for review at least 24 hours.
> 3. your change must have been approved by two Committers out of which at
> least one is also a Reviewer.
> 4. your change must have passed through the hs tier 1 testing provided by
> the submit-hs repository with zero failures.
> 5. you must be available the next few hours, and the next day and ready to
> follow up with any fix needed in case your change causes problems in later
> tiers.
>
> A change that causes failures in later tiers may be backed out if a fix
> can not be provided fast enough, or if the developer is not responsive when
> noticed about the failure.
>
> Note that 5 above should be interpreted as "it is a really bad idea to
> push a change the last thing you do before bedtime, or the day before going
> on vacation".
>
> There is a notion of trivial changes that can be pushed sooner than 24
> hours. It should be clearly stated in the review mail that the intention is
> to push as a trivial change. How to actually define "trivial" is decided on
> a case-by-case basis but in general it would be things like fixing a
> comment, or moving code without changing it. Backing out a change is also
> considered trivial as the change itself in that case is generated by
> mercurial.
>
> One of these days I'll figure out how to put this stuff on the OpenJDK
> wiki.
>
> Thanks,
> /Jesper
>
> [1] http://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/jdk-dev/2018-
> January/000566.html
>
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