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

[Andrew John Hughes]

2009/12/8 Joseph D. Darcy <Joe.Darcy at sun.com>:
> Joseph D. Darcy wrote:
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>> Andrew John Hughes wrote:
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>>> 2009/11/13 Joseph D. Darcy <Joe.Darcy at sun.com>:
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>>>> Andrew John Hughes wrote:
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>>>>> 2009/11/10 Andrew John Hughes <gnu_andrew at member.fsf.org>:
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>>>>> 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!
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> [snip]
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>>>>>
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>>>> 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.
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>
>
> 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
>

Sorry, I've been distracted with first the OpenJDK7 release and then
time off work.  Backporting the timezone stuff should be fairly
trivial.  I'll have a try today and if it isn't, then we can consider
delaying it.

I think we do need to get the Nimbus fixes in.  I'm trying to get
IcedTea6 working against OpenJDK6 hg so I can test this, and all the
JAXWS/JAXP changes don't make that a simple job.  But it's in
progress.

Is there any news on updating jcheck?  I still haven't been able to
push the X11 fix.

In response to Erik's e-mail, I'd be happier making HotSpot b16 part
of b19 rather than b18, so we have more time for testing.

So still:

* Timezone fixes
* Nimbus fixes
* X11 fix

for b18 from my side.  Is there some rush to get this out?
-- 
Andrew :-)

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