Initial forests for JDK 9

[Volker Simonis]

Hi Mark,

why don't we create something like http://hg.openjdk.java.net/dev with
master, dev, client and hotspot forest beneath it. These forests could live
"forever". Any time a new release is ready, we would then clone jdk9,
jdk10, etc from dev/master. Wouldn't that be a more natural setup?

Regards,
Volker

On Tuesday, December 10, 2013, wrote:

> I'd like to go forward with Joe's proposal [1], as informed by our
> discussion over the last two weeks.  My thanks to Joe for driving
> the conversation.
>
> To summarize, under http://hg.openjdk.java.net/jdk9 we'll have:
>
>   jdk9    "Master" forest -- a time-delayed, stable version of "dev"
>
>   dev      Default development forest -- replaces the current "tl"
>            forest, integrates directly into the master
>
>   client   Client development forest (AWT, 2D, Swing) -- integrates
>            into "dev" after suitable manual testing
>
>   hotspot  HotSpot development forest -- integrates into "dev"
>
> There will also be HotSpot group forests (hotspot-{comp,emb,gc,rt}), at
> least for now.
>
> We'll create these forests on Thursday as clones of the JDK 8 master
> forest, at tag jdk8-b120.
>
> I will, as suggested, fold active HSX and Nashorn contributors into the
> appropriate JDK 9 Project roles.
>
> To be specific: If you hold the Author, Committer, or Reviewer role in
> the JDK 8 Project [2], the HSX Project [3], the Nashorn Project [4], or
> some combination of these Projects, and you have contributed at least one
> changeset to JDK 8, either directly or indirectly, then in JDK 9 you will
> be granted the highest of the roles that you hold amongst those Projects.
>
> - Mark
>
>
> [1]
> http://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/jdk9-dev/2013-November/000000.html
> [2] http://openjdk.java.net/census#jdk8
> [3] http://openjdk.java.net/census#hsx
> [4] http://openjdk.java.net/census#nashorn
>