Source releases questions

[Andrew Haley]

On 06/12/2013 04:50 PM, Andrew Hughes wrote:
> 
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
>> Hi,
>>
>> Some questions:
>>
>> 1) are there any estimates for openjdk6 source release?
>>
>> 2) is current tip from mercurial [1] safe for production usage (I've
>> tested points 2 and 3 from release process doc [2] but I'm not sure
>> about point 4 (TCK))
>>
>> My current employer uses openjdk6 build 27 (with copyMemory patch) for
>> server-side apps and we want to upgrade to version with latest security
>> patches (and we are not ready for jdk7).
>>
>>
>> [1] http://hg.openjdk.java.net/jdk6/jdk6/
>> [2] http://hg.openjdk.java.net/jdk6/jdk6/raw-file/tip/ReleaseProcess.html
> 
> For a more immediate solution, I suggest you look at using the latest IcedTea
> release, as all the GNU/Linux distributions do:
> 
> http://blog.fuseyism.com/index.php/2013/04/25/security-icedtea-1-11-11-1-12-5-for-openjdk-6-released/
> 
> It has the latest security fixes and many backports from OpenJDK 7 that also
> went into the proprietary Oracle release of 6 but haven't yet made it into
> OpenJDK 6.

If OpenJDK 6 really isn't fit for use we need a list of which backports
are in IcedTea 6 that we need.

Andrew.