[7u6] Request for phase 2 approval for CR 7188168: 7071904 broke the DEBUG_BINARIES option on Linux

[Dalibor Topic]

On 8/10/12 7:52 PM, Andrew Hughes wrote:
> ----- Original Message -----
>> Andrew,
>>
>> Unfortunately this request comes very late in the 7u6 stabilization
>> phase. Thorough testing & analysis is almost complete and we're
>> preparing for release. 
> 
> Hmmm... was this announced somewhere?  All I see in my archives are the initial
> announcement of the branch and I vaguely recall something about "August", nothing
> more specific, but I may have missed something.

I believe that Sean's 'phase 2 progress' mail came in while you were on vacation: 
http://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/jdk7u-dev/2012-July/003862.html 

> Is there a webpage that tracks the release process?  I don't see anything on
> http://openjdk.java.net/projects/jdk7u/  It would be easier for us to work
> to deadlines if we knew what they were :-)

That'd be a good thing for us to add for 7u8.
 
>>From our perspective, this is critical.  Without this fixed, tools
> can't work with the debug information on x86.
> 
> We can work around this by patching in IcedTea (we've actually already
> applied it there) but we're working towards a scenario where we will be
> able to use OpenJDK directly and avoid IcedTea.  If we're not able to get
> fixes in during the latter stages of a release, then making such a switch
> becomes unfeasible.

I think this fix would have been a good fit in phase 2 for 7u6 if it had 
come in a week or two ago in late July, and maybe even early August - around the 
tim of Sean's e-mail above. Given that we can work around it in Icedtea, I think 
it's a better fit for 7u8 now - that's the low risk choice.

I think we'll need to give some thought to downstream testing cycles for 7u8 to 
ensure that we can catch and fix any such regressions earlier during the development 
of the release.

>> With this issue not affecting the product
>> JDK bits,
> 
> I'm not sure what you mean.  Can you explain?  This does affect what we ship.

I think that Sean meant the regular, default build. 

>> can I ask that you push this fix to the jdk7u-dev repo
>> instead.
> 
> Well, I was going to propose it for the main tree too, but I went for u6 first
> as I was aware there was less time for that.  Apparently, there's even less than
> I thought... :-)  Do I need to send a fresh mail for this or can I just push?

No need to send a fresh mail, consider it approved for 7u8. And thanks for 
catching & fixing the issue!

cheers,
dalibor topic
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