JDK 9 forests open

[Chris Hegarty]

I'm not sure that is matters, but just that you are aware, you are adding JDK 8 build tags that are not in any other repo in the 9 forest. It won't of course affect the bits, just maybe a little odd, but possibly harmless.

-Chris.

>> -----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
>>