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

[Andrew John Hughes]

2009/11/8 Erik Trimble <Erik.Trimble at sun.com>:
> Jonathan Gibbons wrote:
>>
>> Andrew John Hughes wrote:
>>>
>>> 2009/11/7 Joseph D. Darcy <Joe.Darcy at sun.com>:
>>>
>>>>
>>>> Hello.
>>>>
>>>> The latest batch of security fixes have been pushed into OpenJDK 6.
>>>>
>>>> Martin and Andrew, you're clear to push your other fixes back.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>
>>> Thanks, I'll get onto that tomorrow or Monday.
>>>
>>>
>>>>
>>>> Now that OpenJDK 6 has the latest security fixes, Andrew's backport of
>>>> Nimbus, and the new delivery model for jaxp and jaxws, that might be a
>>>> good
>>>> amount of change to be a new build, b18.
>>>>
>>>> Is there any other work that should go back into b18?
>>>>
>>>>
>>>
>>> I'd like to get a backport of
>>> http://hg.openjdk.java.net/jdk7/jdk7/rev/d6b08bdb9a54 in.  It's a
>>> minor fix that Kelly found that gets rid of the superfluous -fastdebug
>>> build directory currently being produced by OpenJDK6 builds.
>>>
>>> Otherwise I think it's good to go.
>>>
>>> The list has been silent on the matter, but I discussed hs16 and
>>> OpenJDK6 with Dalibor on IRC and we agreed that it would be better to
>>> wait until this is more stable before bumping up OpenJDK6 to it.
>>> IcedTea is currently supporting it as a build option, but it isn't
>>> turned on by default.  One advantage to hs16 going into OpenJDK6 is
>>> that the Zero assembler port changeset which was recently promoted
>>> into b75 could be backported.  Otherwise, it needs a few things
>>> ripping out to work with hs14 (and then putting back when we do go to
>>> hs16).
>>>
>
> I'd wait on HS16 until it's closer to being shipped with Sun JDK 6 Update
> 18.  I expect that we'll likely have the last build of HS16 for 6u18
> sometime before Thanksgiving - that version is likely the best version to
> import into OpenJDK6 and do modifications to.    (it should be hs16 build 12
> or 13, we're on 11 right now).
>
> -Erik
>
>
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Ah, thanks for the feedback.  That sounds sensible.  So I guess we're
talking end of November/beginning of December which should make it
b19.
-- 
Andrew :-)

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