JEPs proposed to target JDK *16*: 357 (Migrate from Mercurial to Git) & 369 (Migrate to GitHub)

[Timmy Jose]

That is excellent news!

On Wed, May 20, 2020 at 12:17 AM Joe Darcy <joe.darcy at oracle.com> wrote:

> FYI, assuming the JEPs get targeted, a bit more detail on the Skara
> team's current SCM transition plans for JDK 16.
>
> We are looking at transitioning the jdk/jdk repo hosted on github.com to
> become the read/write master for JDK 16 sources in early September 2020.
> This would be a few weeks before the GA date of JDK 15 and after a
> separate JDK 15 repo is forked off in mid-June per the JDK 15 schedule
> (http://openjdk.java.net/projects/jdk/15/).
>
> The early access JDK 16 builds published on http://jdk.java.net/ may
> transition to being Git-based rather than Mercurial-based some time
> ahead of the repo transition. Which SCM is used as a basis for a JDK
> build can be inferred from the contents of the "release" file in the
> root of the build. Among other information, the release file records the
> SCM and the SCM hashes of the sources used for the build.
>
> -Joe
>
> On 5/18/2020 4:18 PM, mark.reinhold at oracle.com wrote:
> > The following JEPs are proposed to target JDK *16*:
> >
> >    357: Migrate from Mercurial to Git
> >         https://openjdk.java.net/jeps/357
> >
> >    369: Migrate to GitHub
> >         https://openjdk.java.net/jeps/369
> >
> > Feedback on these proposal from JDK Project Committers and Reviewers [1]
> > are more than welcome, as are reasoned objections.  If no such objections
> > are raised by 23:59 UTC on Monday, 25 May, or if they’re raised and
> > then satisfactorily answered, then per the JEP 2.0 process proposal [2]
> > I’ll target these JEPs to JDK 16.
> >
> > - Mark
> >
> >
> > [1] https://openjdk.java.net/census#jdk
> > [2] https://cr.openjdk.java.net/~mr/jep/jep-2.0-02.html
>