Proposal to revise forest graph and integration practices for JDK 9

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On 12/2/13 6:04 AM, Joe Darcy wrote:
>> So, I'd like to suggest that jdk9/dev replaces the equivalent of jdk9/tl, jdk9/awt, jdk9/swing, jdk9/2d, jdk9/build, jdk9/deploy, jdk9/l10n, jdk9/swing, nashorn/jdk9 in one go.
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> For the open components, that is essentially the proposal. Deploy and install are closed and have different testing requirements from other code so would likely remain separate.

Cool. Fwiw, I only mentioned deploy in there because there is a jdk8/deploy 'scratch' forest on hg.openjdk.java.net which presumably just complements a closed one to make integrations simpler. 

In practice, I don't think that it's very useful to have such setups where a closed forest has an OpenJDK counterpart and no actual development is done in OpenJDK - at best it leads to confusion, at worst it leads to spurious changes that have to be done because of the poor, established repository & forest layout, rather then because they make technical sense.

> Thanks for the feedback on that point of the proposal; I'm still uncomfortable with collapsing master and dev before we put the model into practice.

No problem - I'm glad to hear that you are not objecting to it on principle, and assuming the new model works out for 9, there could be other opportunities to try it out.

cheers,
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