Rule 1

[Phil Race]

Bug fix deficits are a pain to manage as we learned in 7. So yes, this 
would be a good thing.

Providing a pointer to the already pushed JDK8 change set in the 
approval requests
as is generally required for back ports would help enforce this.

One question though : are the committers who are being added to 7u-dev
as a consequence of the mac port also committers on 8 ?

-phil.

On 3/14/12 4:45 AM, Edvard Wendelin wrote:
> First of all, congratulations to all of you who have worked on getting the os x port forward ported to 8!
>
> I'd say we should start enforcing that fixes gets pushed to 8 first as soon as possible. Otherwise we will build up a list of forward ports pretty quickly. At this point in time I would imagine that the cost of pushing to 8 first isn't that large? The code (with regards to the os x) hasn't diverged much, I assume?
>
> /Edvard
>
> On Mar 14, 2012, at 10:50 AM, Alan Bateman wrote:
>
>> Just a quick process question.
>>
>> Rule 1 [1] is that all changes that aren't specific to 7u must go into 8 first. Now that the Mac port is in the jdk8 master then does it mean that Mac specific fixes are now required to go into 8 first or is there a grace period?
>>
>> -Alan
>>
>> [1] http://openjdk.java.net/projects/jdk7u/groundrules.html