JEP 175: Integrate PowerPC/AIX Port into JDK 8

[Phil Race]

>As previously discussed on porters-dev the current target is not the first
>JDK 8 release but rather the first non-security update (i.e. something like
>JDK 8u2)

Given the scale and timing, isn't JDK 9 a more appropriate target ?
The goal of a JDK 8 update 2, *should* be stabilisation, and this sounds 
rather the opposite.
It also introduces logistic issues like ramping up infrastructure which 
in my experience
can't solved all that quickly.

-phil.

On 2/1/2013 5:57 AM, Volker Simonis wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 1, 2013 at 12:15 PM, David Holmes <david.holmes at oracle.com>wrote:
>
>> On 1/02/2013 8:11 PM, mark.reinhold at oracle.com wrote:
>>
>>> Posted: http://openjdk.java.net/jeps/**175<http://openjdk.java.net/jeps/175>
>>>
>> I'm forced to send this to porters-dev but I do not subscribe to that list
>> (so it will probably get held up).
>>
>> Given the way the JEP tasks have been split it would seem much more
>> appropriate to me for discussions to occur on hotspot-dev and core-libs-dev
>> as this, as the JEP says, is about the integration effort not the porting
>> effort.
>>
> Yes, I agree. I just wanted to wait until the JEP was published before
> posting it to the appropriate lists
>
>
>> That said this is also relevant to jdk8-dev, also cc'd, as it affects all
>> JDK 8 development. I have trouble seeing how such a large effort can be
>> assimilated within the timeframes of the Java 8 schedule.
>>
>>
> As previously discussed on porters-dev the current target is not the first
> JDK 8 release but rather the first non-security update (i.e. something like
> JDK 8u2)
>
> Regards,
> Volker
>
> David
>>   - Mark