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

[Andrew Hughes]

----- Original Message -----
> 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
> 

I think this is where I remember the "August" reference from.  I think
exact deadlines will help as we see more community involvement in jdk7u.

> > 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.
>  

Something as simple as a few bullet points with the proposed dates for
each stage & release would be good enough.  Having this in a calendar-parsable
format would be a bonus.

> >>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 see your point.  It was partly to test the waters to see how feasible
working directly with OpenJDK is.  Still work to be done on both sides.

> 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.
> 

On our side, we have been tracking things a lot more closely for u6.
We branched at about the same time for 2.3 and I expect a release around
the same time.

> >> 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.
> 

As we have with IcedTea, we probably need to decide which build options
we regard as critical to release and which not.

> >> 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!
> 

Thanks.
Pushed: http://hg.openjdk.java.net/jdk7u/jdk7u-dev/hotspot/rev/aff265cb73a3

> cheers,
> dalibor topic
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