Test Backports

[Andrew John Hughes]

On 16 April 2010 02:09, Joe Darcy <joe.darcy at oracle.com> wrote:
> Andrew John Hughes wrote:
>>
>> 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:
>>>
>>> On 10 April 2010 03:40, Kelly O'Hair <kelly.ohair at oracle.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>> On Apr 9, 2010, at 7:20 PM, Andrew John Hughes wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On 10 April 2010 01:48, Kelly O'Hair <kelly.ohair at oracle.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>> On Apr 9, 2010, at 5:05 PM, Andrew John Hughes wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Just waiting on Kelly's reponse now wrt. the HotSpot source/target fix.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Can you clarify what response you are waiting on?
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Yes, sorry it's this one:
>>> http://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/jdk6-dev/2010-April/001464.html
>>>
>>> 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.
>>>
>>>
>>> The hotspot file changes look ok, but I have no idea how the hotspot
>>> changes are being handled for openjdk6.
>>>
>>>
>>> We regularly import from the stablisation branches:
>>>
>>> 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?)
>>>
>>> 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.
>>>
>>> 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.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> I'm not sure of the timeline for hs17.
>>>
>>> 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.
>>>
>>>
>>
>> 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.
>>
>>
>
> I don't think a new build number is strictly required for the copyright
> change, but I think it makes the change easier to administer: "before build
> N, Sun copyrights; build N and later, Oracle copyrights."
>
> I agree there would be little motivation for IcedTea 6 to pick up that build
> just to get new copyright notices.
>
> -Joe
>
>

Ok, do you have any idea when these changes will happen?  My worry is
that this effectively means a block on OpenJDK6 activity until then.

Assuming we want b20 to be the N mentioned above, we could upgrade
HotSpot to 17 as part of b20, bringing with it both the new copyrights
and keeping us in sync with the proprietary JDK6 (hs17b13, the current
build, will be used in 6u21 b03 -
http://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/hotspot-dev/2010-April/002843.html).
 Then it really would be the case that all copyrights change in that
build and we also have a single new feature (hs17) too.  The only
changes to langtools & jdk would be the copyrights.

Does this sound sensible?  The alternative for HotSpot would be to
change the copyrights on the current OpenJDK6 version, which would
duplicate the work already done on hs17 and may make merging hs17
harder.

Will the copyrights in CORBA, JAXP and JAXWS be changing?

Thanks,
-- 
Andrew :-)

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