Request for creation of OSX integration repo forest

[Paul Hohensee]

The ideas are:

1. In the interest of delivery speed, we want the OSX port to go into the 7
update train and get forward-ported to 8 from there.  At the moment,
there's not much difference between 7u and 8, so for at least the initial
work a forward port should be not very difficult.

2. The proposed forest would be a development integration forest
and thus as stable at any given time as the component development
teams make it.  It's specifically a child of jdk7u, which the macos-port
forest is not, and we don't want to necessarily start with the current
content of the macos-port forest.  The proposed forest isn't a "master"
forest in the sense of jdk7u or for that matter jdk8.  Think of it as being
like the jigsaw development forest.

3. "Stable" should be defined by the component teams, but imo at
a minimum it should be "pass the jcks on OSX and the complete
set of current tests we're running on jdk7u for all other platforms".
I.e., minimal stability for OSX and no regressions on other platforms.
Once we've done that, we can think about discarding the proposed
forest and pushing directly to jdk7u for further work.

4. The current macos-port forest would be obsoleted.

Paul

On 10/6/11 2:41 PM, Phil Race wrote:
> I think there's a while to figure out what makes sense as the "stable 
> port" will take
> a while to come about but someone needs to figure out what gets us 
> where we
> want to be, so I wouldn't rush the implementation ..
>
> Anyway, on  openjdk we currently have
> 1. macos-porting project
> 2. 7u-dev
> 3. jdk8
>
> The goal has to be that #1 eventually becomes obsolete because the code
> is stable and is in #2 and #3
>
> If we replace #1 with a #4: 7u-dev-osx then the question is what does 
> that buy us ?
> I can suppose it is intended to be more controlled than the 
> macosx-port but
> less stable than the mainline 7u-dev, until sometime later. But if we 
> are to
> release a 7uN port for all platforms then we would need to make sure that
> the fixes going into mainline also get merged into 7u-dev-osx .. and 
> some day
> we need to obsolete that. I think that there's a gap opening up 
> already since
> SFAIK, the macosx-port is based 7 GA.
>
> Also we ought to consider when this all goes into 8. There it really 
> should
> go straight into 8.
>
> -phil.
>
> On 10/6/2011 9:37 AM, Dalibor Topic wrote:
>> On 10/6/11 8:16 AM, Paul Hohensee wrote:
>>> At JavaOne, Oracle announced the developer preview of the JDK7 Mac OSX
>>> port. Apple is open-sourcing the port and Oracle plans to deliver it in
>>> a future JDK7 update release.   Since the initial port will use the 
>>> JDK7 code
>>> base, I'd like to propose the creation of a project repo forest for 
>>> the port
>>> as a sub-project of the JDK7 update project. Once a stable port exists
>>> in the OSX project repo forest, we can request permission to push it 
>>> to jdk7u.
>> Thanks for this proposal, Paul.
>>
>> I posted a link to the Oracle JDK 7 Update release roadmap published 
>> at JavaOne
>> and the corresponding press releases which give some more background 
>> information
>> on the plans wrt to the Mac OS X port to provide some more background 
>> for this
>> request. [1]
>>
>> I'd like to open up this proposal for discussion until Monday.
>>
>> cheers,
>> dalibor topic
>>
>> [1] 
>> http://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/jdk7u-dev/2011-October/000534.html
>>
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