Review of 7057705: can't generate api docs for JDK7 updates

Dr Andrew John Hughes ahughes at redhat.com
Mon Jul 18 16:33:27 PDT 2011


On 02:20 Sat 16 Jul     , Dalibor Topic wrote:
> Thanks, Abhijit. I'll provide a bit more background on this change, since it's always a bit scary to see changes flowing into the public repos without having seen them discussed prior to that on a public list, or in other words - it should never happen. 
> 
> As Abhijit writes, this change comes from 7u1, and as I wrote in one of the drafts, that's a CPU - but this is not a security fix, it's 'just' a build fix to allow RE to start producing builds from jdk7u mainline for testing. 
> 
> With that explanation, I'll borrow from Joe Darcy's bag of tricks of dealing with unforeseen circumstances in OpenJDK 6, and retroactively approve this fix, so that RE can produce a build for testing.
> 

Does this mean we should already be pulling from the 7u tree?  Will there be any more pushes to 7?

> cheers,
> dalibor topic
 

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