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

[Erik Trimble]

Joseph D. Darcy wrote:
> 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
I've got 3 more minor fixes for hs16 that are just finishing testing, 
which should finish hs16 as a shippable product.  They should be done 
and integrated by Wednesday (maybe tomorrow, but no promises).   It's up 
to you folks to decide if the should be part of b18 or not.

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