Proposal to revise forest graph and integration practices for JDK 9

[Sean Mullan]

On 11/25/2013 03:50 AM, David Holmes wrote:
>> The JDK is a broad code base and expert-level expertise in one domain
>> does not imply competence in all other domains. However, I don't think
>> it is necessary or helpful to try to codify all such distinctions in
>> OpenJDK roles.
>
> 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.

So, how would that work with the new proposed structure? Since 
coordinated libs + hotspot fixes would need to be pushed first to the 
hotspot forest, does that mean *only* hsx committers would be allowed to 
do that?

I seem to be hearing different opinions on this, and I think this is an 
important issue to resolve if the plan is put into place.

--Sean