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

[Joseph D. Darcy]

Andrew John Hughes wrote:
> 2009/12/8 Andrew John Hughes <gnu_andrew at member.fsf.org>:
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>> 2009/12/8 Joseph D. Darcy <Joe.Darcy at sun.com>:
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>>> 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?
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>>>>>>>               
>>>>>> It doesn't seem like much of anything is happening with timezone data in
>>>>>> OpenJDK 6!
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>>>>>> I'd appreciate if you could backport these timezone changes.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> -Joe
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>>>>> 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.
>>>>
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>>>>> 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
>>>
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>> 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.
>>     

Okay.

>> 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.
>>     

I've pinged Mark but haven't heard back.

Unfortunately, the most expedient way to get this fix back to probably 
to ASCII-fy the contributor's name.

>> 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.
>>     

Yes, the HotSpot upgrade should occur in b19.

>> So still:
>>
>> * Timezone fixes
>> * Nimbus fixes
>>     
Nimbus backports from JDK 7 I assume.

>> * X11 fix
>>
>> for b18 from my side.  Is there some rush to get this out?
>>     

No rush per se, but with the holiday coming up (including my on vacation 
soon), if the build doesn't happen in the next week or so, it probably 
won't happen until January and I'd prefer to get a build with the 
security fixes officially out before then.

>
> Just remembered about Kelly's JDI work; that would be good to get in
> and being test-related, shouldn't break anything about the build or
> JDK itself.
>   

There are a bunch of source changes too, but they have been in JDK 7 for 
a while so they should be fine for OpenJDK 6.

-Joe