[11u] Proposal: Switch jdk11u development to Git/Skara with 11.0.13 cycle

[Andrew Dinn]

On 12/02/2021 16:37, Severin Gehwolf wrote:
> Don't get me wrong, moving JDK 8u to git is doable, but it'll need some
> more thought than 11u.

That's what I was thinking.

> My preference would be to do it in steps:
> 1.) HG forest -> monorepo conversion (using JEP 296 scripts)
> 2.) HG -> git conversion using Skara tooling (should take care of
>      proper metadata, etc.)
Yes, I think this is the right way to go about it. If nothing else 
because the tools for the second step assumed that the first one had 
happened.

The really tricky differences I see happen at step 1 (although they 
might have a knock-on effect at step 2)

   JEP 296 had to relocate all the java code into modules
   JEP 296 did not have to retain (and therefore relocate) all of the 
java code we need to keep in jdk8u (corba?, jaxb?, jaxws?)

I don't suppose these differences would be impossible to sort out but I 
think they would require some effort.

regards,


Andrew Dinn
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