JDK7: Buffering and stabilization

[Andrew John Hughes]

2009/5/8 Mark Reinhold <mr at sun.com>:
>> Date: Wed, 22 Apr 2009 11:38:34 -0700
>> From: jonathan.gibbons at sun.com
>
>> Recent announcements [1] have changed the rules for integrating changes
>> into OpenJDK JDK7.
>>
>> ...
>>
>> Therefore, rather than have individual groups set up their own private
>> integration areas, I'd like to suggest we create a single new forest for
>> pushing changes to stabilize the master repository for a upcoming
>> milestone -- and we leave the main integration repositories open for
>> business, accumulating changes until they can next be pushed to the master.
>
> In principle I think this is a fine idea, but at this point in M3 it
> doesn't seem worth the effort given our other priorities.  Build 59
> is scheduled for next week, after which the gates will be re-opened
> for general M4 development.  If we actually need to do the scheduled
> M3 showstopper build (60) then we'll spin up a temporary forest just
> for that purpose.
>
> Once we're past JavaOne then let's work on a specific "buffering"
> proposal for use in M4 and beyond.
>
> - Mark
>

So b59 may be the last build drop for M3/JavaOne preview?  We'd like
to do a matching IcedTea release, so it would be good to know ASAP
which build drop is best to base this on.

Thanks,
-- 
Andrew :-)

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