Draft Ground Rules

[Dalibor Topic]

On 7/13/11 5:33 PM, Andrew John Hughes wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 13, 2011 at 02:37:06AM +0200, Dalibor Topic wrote:

>> Rule 1: All changes that are not specific to JDK 7 Update MUST go into JDK 8 first. As a special exception, a change MAY go into JDK 7 Update if it is at the same time also proposed for inclusion into JDK 8.
>>
> 
> With OpenJDK6, we also required that they had 'soaked' for a sufficient time in OpenJDK7, say
> one build drop.  This ensured that they had been through release integration prior to backport.

Yeah - since OpenJDK 6 did not have its own early access builds like JDK 7 did, that ensured that 
changes had seen some love from Oracle and community testing JDK 7 early access builds. With
JDK 7 Updates, we'll have early access builds, so it's better to get a completed fix destined 
for a specific release as early as possible into the always-open mainline.

cheers,
dalibor topic
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