JDK 7 Updates: Policy Changes

[Andrew Haley]

On 07/27/2015 04:35 PM, Andrew Hughes wrote:

> My entire position is founded on having upstream OpenJDK 7 *replace*
> IcedTea in the long run. If we instead just want to do the minimum again -
> file a few backport bugs as needed, keep everything else in IcedTea - then
> yes, it really doesn't matter that much where you file them. For all you need
> for that, you could simply stick a table up on the IcedTea wiki.

Absolutely so, yes.  The OpenJDK 7 updates project can certainly do
that: there's no reason not to take all suitably-qualified patches
from IcedTea 7 and later OpenJDK releases.

Andrew.