JDK 9 forests open

[Ron Durbin]

I agree Coleen

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Coleen Phillmore
> Sent: Friday, January 03, 2014 11:03 AM
> To: Joe Darcy
> Cc: jdk9-dev at openjdk.java.net; Alan Bateman
> Subject: Re: JDK 9 forests open
> 
> 
> I think Hotspot should do a bulk merge.  I just did this with hsx/hotspot-main/hotspot =>
> jdk9/hs/hotspot and it just passed JPRT.
> 
> The changes that were merged are here:
> 
> http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~coleenp/jdk9_changes
> <http://cr.openjdk.java.net/%7Ecoleenp/jdk9_changes>
> 
> I don't see why any of these should not go into JDK9.   If anyone does,
> speak now!
> 
> Also, I'd like to hear from the Alejandro or John Coomes or anyone else who may be doing
> this exact same thing before I merge this.
> 
> Thanks!!!
> Coleen
> 
> On 1/3/2014 12:30 PM, Joe Darcy wrote:
> > 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
>