Security fixes are back; other fixes can go in. Time for build 18?

[Joseph D. Darcy]

Joseph D. Darcy wrote:
> Andrew John Hughes wrote:
>> 2009/11/13 Joseph D. Darcy <Joe.Darcy at sun.com>:
>>  
>>> Andrew John Hughes wrote:
>>>    
>>>> 2009/11/10 Andrew John Hughes <gnu_andrew at member.fsf.org>:
>>>>
>>>>       
>>> [snip]
>>>    
>>>> Still need to look at this, but was wondering what was happening with
>>>> timezone data in 6?
>>>>       
>>> It doesn't seem like much of anything is happening with timezone 
>>> data in
>>> OpenJDK 6!     
[snip]

>>>>       
>>> I'd appreciate if you could backport these timezone changes.
>>>
>>> -Joe
>>>
>>>     
>>
>> Ok, no problem.
>>
>> So I make it for b18 we still have:
>>
>>   * the issue with the X11 patch I can't apply because of jcheck
>>   
>
> I'll check in with Mark, but we're both speaking at Devoxx next week 
> so recognizing Latin-1 characters in jcheck may not happen immediately.
>
>>   * Nimbus issues
>>   * the diff issue with HotSpot Martin pointed out
>>   
>
> Right.
>
>> Do we also want the timezone data changes for b18 or shall we do that
>> in b19? I think b19's main feature is likely to be hs16.
>>   
>
> I think the time zone updates would be better in b18; the nature of 
> these changes is very well-understood.
>


Some time has passed, a few more fixes have come into the repos, and I'm 
beginning to think it would better to have OpenJDK 6 b18 be more or less 
what is there now and to have the timezone update and other changes go 
into b19.

Thoughts?

-Joe