Test Backports

[Andrew John Hughes]

On 15 April 2010 02:03, Joe Darcy <joe.darcy at oracle.com> wrote:
> On 04/11/10 01:42 PM, Andrew John Hughes wrote:
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> On 10 April 2010 03:40, Kelly O'Hair <kelly.ohair at oracle.com> wrote:
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> On Apr 9, 2010, at 7:20 PM, Andrew John Hughes wrote:
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> On 10 April 2010 01:48, Kelly O'Hair <kelly.ohair at oracle.com> wrote:
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> On Apr 9, 2010, at 5:05 PM, Andrew John Hughes wrote:
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> Just waiting on Kelly's reponse now wrt. the HotSpot source/target fix.
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> Can you clarify what response you are waiting on?
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> Yes, sorry it's this one:
> http://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/jdk6-dev/2010-April/001464.html
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> It wasn't clear whether you were ok with the HotSpot change or wanted
> more time to review.  The patch is pretty much as-is in OpenJDK7, the
> only difference being the version change from 6 to 5.
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> The hotspot file changes look ok, but I have no idea how the hotspot
> changes are being handled for openjdk6.
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> We regularly import from the stablisation branches:
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> http://hg.openjdk.java.net/hsx/hsx14/master/ (OpenJDK6 b17 & b18)
> http://hg.openjdk.java.net/hsx/hsx16/master/ (OpenJDK6 b19)
> http://hg.openjdk.java.net/hsx/hsx17/master/ (OpenJDK6 b20?)
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> The last one, hs17, includes the OpenJDK7 version of this fix.
> Including an OpenJDK6 version now with 1.5 source and target versions
> has the advantage that we won't bring in a version that requires
> source and target versions of 1.6 from hs17.
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> Joe, does b20 sound appropriate for hs17?  I know it's a bit soon
> after hs16, but the proprietary JDK6 is already moving towards this
> and we could do with catching up.  It will be take time for such an
> OpenJDK6 release to roll through into an IcedTea6 release and then the
> distros anyway, so I'd prefer sooner rather than later.
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> I'm not sure of the timeline for hs17.
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> At some point, the copyright notices in the OpenJDK 6 repo will be changed
> from Sun -> Oracle.  A more general announcement about this process and the
> new conventions will be forthcoming.

This has already happened in hs17.  I queried the rather strange
ranges used on the new notices earlier this week.

Making these copyright changes, at
> least in the langtools and jdk repos, might warrant a separate build with
> just those changes, in which case the upgrade of the HotSpot sources to HS
> 17 (with changed copyrights?) might occur in build 21 or later.
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Do we really need a new build just for that?  I doubt we'd bother
upgrading IcedTea6 to such a build just for that change.

> -Joe
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