When will jdk9/client/jdk be merged into jdk9/dev/jdk?

[Alan Bateman]

On 22/09/2014 10:06, Volker Simonis wrote:
> Hi,
>
> can somebody please tell me when jdk9/client/jdk will be merged into
> jdk9/dev/jdk? I thought this happens regularly on a weekly base, but
> maybe that's wrong?
>
> I'm just asking because I pushed a fix which repaired the AIX build
> (8057934) to the jdk9/client/jdk ropository on September 10th but it
> hasn't been propagated to jdk9/dev/jdk until now. I there something I
> can do to speed up this process (i.e. can I manually push a change
> which already is in jdk9/client/jdk to jdk9/dev/jdk?)
>
AFAIK, changes pushed to jdk9/client are integrated into jdk9/dev every 
2 weeks. The last integration seems to have been done by Phil on 
September 12. That integration was probably based on a snapshot of the 
outgoing changes taken several days before that so my guess is that your 
change just missed the bus. If the buses are running on time then it's 
likely that your change will get to jdk9/dev later this week.

Your mail is a reminder that we need to question again the need for 
jdk9/client forest. The latency issues are a big problem, esp. when 
working with project forests that pull from master. If a change that you 
need is pushed to jdk9/client then it can take many weeks to get to the 
place where you actually need it. The other issue is the clean-up and 
refactoring that covers many areas, it becomes totally uneconomical when 
contributors are forced to split the changes.

There was a good discussion here (in Dec 2013/Jan 2014) about the 
integration forests that lead to the creation of jdk9/dev and 
jdk9/client. Key questions at the time were whether changes to the 
client libraries needed manual testing and the reliability of the 
automated tests. Testing client libraries is clearly a challenge and I 
think it would be good to establish where things are currently at. More 
generally, we've been living with the current arrangement for 9 months 
or so and it would be a good time to assess if people think it is 
working well or not.

-Alan