JDK 8 Warnings Cleanup Day -- Dec. 1st, 2011

[Xiomara Jayasena]

On 11/29/11 4:21 AM, Artem Ananiev wrote:
>
> On 11/29/2011 2:31 PM, Alan Bateman wrote:
>> On 29/11/2011 02:10, Xiomara Jayasena wrote:
>>> :
>>>
>>> 3. Pull this repo to base your changes on it:
>>> http://hg.openjdk.java.net/jdk8/tl/jdk
>>>
>> The AWT/Swing folks might want to chime in here but I suspect they may
>> prefer to have fixes for the client area (java.awt.**, javax.swing.**
>> etc) to be based on jdk8/awt rather than the TL forest. It's no big deal
>> if they are pushed to jdk8/tl but it may reduce the merge effort if the
>> client area changes are pushed via the jdk8/awt forest.
>
> Yes, we (AWT and Swing) would definitely like to participate. However, 
> pushing to jdk8/tl forest doesn't look as the right choice: we'll get 
> conflicts with our own changes on synchronization with jdk8 master. As 
> java/sun.awt.* and javax.swing.* packages are quite separate from 
> other JDK parts, wouldn't it be easier to integrate fixes to awt-swing 
> forest?

Yes, I agree if there are client changes, those should go to the 
jdk8/awt client forest.  Happy to see that you guys will participate.

-Xiomara

>
> Thanks,
>
> Artem
>
>> -Alan