Proposal to revise forest graph and integration practices for JDK 9

[Jeremy Manson]

On Tue, Nov 26, 2013 at 8:28 AM, Joe Darcy <joe.darcy at oracle.com> wrote:

>  On 11/25/2013 10:37 PM, Jeremy Manson wrote:
>
> Is it worth formalizing the permission system?  That is, only a select
> group of people would be allowed to give permission to check into any given
> directory, and said permission can be granted by those people to others, on
> a change by change basis?
>
>
> Before any such system is formalized, a precursor would just be
> documenting the reviewers that should be involved in particular
> areas,"Changes in crypto need Alice's or Bob's review," etc. IIRC, there
> have been some partial efforts on this front previously. My impression is
> that usually the right reviews happen, but that it can take a while and it
> is not always clear who should be asked.
>

It seems to me that this is a simple extension of the notion of OpenJDK
Reviewer.  Each directory presumably "belongs" to one of the groups
mentioned in the census: http://openjdk.java.net/census.  There are (I
assume) reviewers in each group.  If you touch a directory with a change,
you need to get permission from one of the reviewers in the appropriate
group.  You may need to get more than one permission.

Jeremy