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

[Joseph D. Darcy]

Andrew John Hughes wrote:
> 2009/12/8 Joseph D. Darcy <Joe.Darcy at sun.com>:
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>> Andrew John Hughes wrote:
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>>> 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?
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>                   
>>>>>>>> It doesn't seem like much of anything is happening with timezone data
>>>>>>>> in
>>>>>>>> OpenJDK 6!
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>                 
>>>>> [snip]
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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.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>             
>>>>> 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.
>>>>
>>>>         
>> 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.
>>
>>     
>
> I've already tried that.  Whatever jcheck is doing goes beyond ASCII
> as it doesn't accept a backtick either (o` is the ASCIIfied version)
>
> As with other issues with jcheck, if it was open-sourced we wouldn't
> have Mark as a bottleneck for fixing the inevitable issues with it.
>   

I agree.  If I see Mark later this week, I'll discuss jcheck with him.

-Joe