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

[Joseph D. Darcy]

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).
>>
>>   
>>> -Joe
>>>
>>>     
>>
>> Thanks,
>>   
>
> Joe and I have also discussed the possibility of backporting the JDK7 
> javac filemanager back to OpenJDK 6, now that we have completed a 
> number of significant bug fixes.  However, this should now probably 
> wait until after b18.
>


Yes, I think the javac file manager fixes would be good for b19.

-Joe