JDK 9 forests open

[Alejandro E Murillo]

Hi Coleen,
there is not plan for bulk merging those changes;
as mentioned below, after the creation of the jdk9 repos, any hotspot 
change
approved for jdk 8 should have also being pushed to the
appropriate hotspot group repo in jdk9 if necessary/applicable

also, if you do this merge, then push it to a group repo, perhaps
jdk9/hs-rt/hotspot, so it gets nightly testing

Thanks
Alejandro

On 1/3/2014 11:02 AM, Coleen Phillmore wrote:
>
> 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
>

-- 
Alejandro