Draft Repository Management

[Jim Holmlund]

On 8/2/2011 4:37 PM, Dalibor Topic wrote:
> On 7/29/11 7:56 AM, Poonam Bajaj wrote:
>> Hi Dalibor,
>>
>> On the Repository Management page (http://openjdk.java.net/projects/jdk7u/repos.html), the location of 7u integration forest is mentioned.
>>
>> "
>> *Rule 2*
>>
>> jdk7u-dev - Integration - always-open mainline forest. Integration schedule is TBD, and will be published on the Project's web page. The push rights to the integration forest are available to current JDK 7 Committers.
>>
>> The OpenJDK JDK 7 Updates integation forest is located at http://hg.openjdk.java.net/jdk7u/jdk7u-dev/.
>> "
>>
>> But the location http://hg.openjdk.java.net/jdk7u/jdk7u-dev/ is not accessible. Is it correct or the forest has not been created yet ?
> The forest wasn't created yet, but it has been created now (thanks, John!).
>
Great!  Let the games begin, eh?

Ground rule 3 here
       http://openjdk.java.net/projects/jdk7u/groundrules.html
says that changes going into a 7u forest must be approved by the maintainer of that forest.  Who is 
the maintainer for jdk7u/jdk7u-dev?  Do we just send this person an email requesting approval, and 
containing a link to the webrev, or to the changeset in JDK8 if it is the same change, eg:
     http://hg.openjdk.java.net/jdk8/tl/langtools/rev/e427c42e1a7e
?  I suppose this email should be cc'd to jdk7u-dev, and should contain the names of the reviewers too?

Thanks
- jjh

> cheers,
> dalibor topic
>