JDK 9 forests open

[Joe Darcy]

On 01/03/2014 07:25 AM, Coleen Phillmore wrote:
>
> On 1/3/2014 10:13 AM, Chris Hegarty wrote:
>> On 3 Jan 2014, at 14:26, Coleen Phillmore 
>> <coleen.phillimore at oracle.com> wrote:
>>
>>> There are a lot of hotspot changes from jdk8 not in the jdk9 
>>> repositories as well.   Is someone merging them all in?
>> The relevant quote from Mark’s mail [1].
>>
>>   "The JDK 9 development forests will be initialized from a specific
>>    build of JDK 8.  After that build, merges between the two code lines
>>    will not be permitted.  A developer who pushes a change into JDK 8
>>    must also apply that change independently to JDK 9, if that change
>>    is applicable to JDK 9.”
>>
>> We are following this process in the core area, and it is working well.
>
> I think it's the case all of these changes to hotspot should be in 
> jdk9, so we should bulk merge them rather than do them independently.  
> There are a lot and some depend on prior changes and our chance of 
> missing one are too high.
>
> I was wondering if someone was already doing this.
>
> Coleen

As Chris noted, the responsibility for forward porting fixes from JDK 8 
to JDK 9 lies with the engineer working on the fix, but if the HotSpot 
team wanted to arrange for someone to do a bulk integration instead, 
that would be fine too.

-Joe