Initial forests for JDK 9

[Mario Torre]

Sounds more reasonable (and natural!) to me too.

Cheers,
Mario
Il 10/dic/2013 23:17 "Volker Simonis" <volker.simonis at gmail.com> ha scritto:

> 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
> >
>