jdk7u-dev OPENJDK build fails

[Florian Weimer]

* Chris Hegarty:

> On 28/10/2011 08:43, Edvard Wendelin wrote:
>> ....
>> The plan was to sync the repos when we built the stabilisation area, but
>> clearly this is something we need to revisit.
>
> Right, but it just seems wrong to have the main jdk7u-dev repository
> unbuildable for so long. Developers cannot build or test. It makes
> development here more difficult than it needs to be.
>
> Also, I wonder if it would make sense to have some type of auto push
> from the jdk7u-dev-stabilization branch to the main jdk7u-dev
> repository?

This seems to be a bit backwards to me.  If hardly anyone notices that
the forest doesn't build, it suggests that nobody is used it for
development.  Perhaps it would be possible to work with a single forest
and freeze it periodically when it's being stabilized for a release?

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