Proposal to revise forest graph and integration practices for JDK 9

[Alan Bateman]

On 25/11/2013 08:50, David Holmes wrote:
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> Again I disagree. To me the biggest flaw with the JDK roles are that 
> they are all encompassing - commiters can commit anything; reviewers 
> can review anything. At least the projects (jdk8, hsx) provided some 
> order on this so that generally library folk had roles related to 
> library code and hotspot folk had roles related to hotspot code. 
> Removing that distinction would be a step backwards to me.
I don't understand this as you'd need 20+ merit badges to cover the 
breath of the JDK. Instead I would say that it is better to just trust 
people to do the right thing. That is, is seems unlikely a Committer 
would propose a patch to the register allocator (for example) on the 
beans-dev list and get a Reviewer that isn't smart enough to make sure 
that the hotspot compiler list is consulted. Clearly there will be 
mistakes made periodically, but that is no different to today. There's 
nothing like breaking something and getting balled out on a mailing list 
to learn a lesson.

-Alan.