About time for b21?

[Joe Darcy]

Dr Andrew John Hughes wrote:
> On 15:28 Mon 18 Oct     , Dr Andrew John Hughes wrote:
>   
>> On 18:04 Thu 14 Oct     , Joe Darcy wrote:
>>     
>>> Hello.
>>>
>>> With Andrew's sync of HS19 into OpenJDK 6 and the recent batch of 
>>> security fixes coming real soon now, I think it is about time to have 
>>> b21.  I'd hold b21 for the remaining bug fixes pushed to HS19 that are 
>>> not quite promoted yet.
>>>
>>> Are there any other changes that should be in b21?
>>>
>>> -Joe
>>>       
>> http://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/jdk6-dev/2010-September/002008.html is
>> still awaiting review.
>>     

Ah, sorry for letting that fall through the cracks and for the belated 
reply -- reminder email just sent.

>> Two of the three suggestions on http://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/jdk6-dev/2010-August/001954.html
>> are also still pending (haven't had time to follow them up).
>>
>> 6678385 did go in, so 6853592 could do with also going in.  See:
>> http://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/distro-pkg-dev/2010-October/010509.html
>> 6853592: VM test nsk.regression.b4261880 fails with "X Error of failed request: BadWindow" inconsistently.
>>     

6853592 is approved to be backported in b21.

>> I'll post webrevs for these three if they sound ok for OpenJDK6 b21.
>>
>> I was going to look at pushing the XRender/DirectX backport upstream, but I think that
>> could do with more soak time in IcedTea6.  We'll do that in b22.
>>     

That approach sounds sensible.

Cheers,

-Joe

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> Any thoughts on this, Joe?
>