macosx-port relationship to bsd-port: child or fork?

[Stephen Bannasch]

At 9:56 AM -0500 1/12/11, Stephen Bannasch wrote:
>Is the macosx-port a fork of bsd-port or a derivation? Will macosx-port be regularly merging changes from bsd-port into
>macosx-port?
>
>About 3 weeks ago bsd-port merged in jdk-b122, while macosx-port is still based off a merge from jdk-b120.

Since last week glewis at eyesbeyond.com has merged upstream jdk and linux/sun branches into the bsd-port branch several several times and the bsd-port branch now synched with tag: jdk7-b126.

Who is responsible for this work on the macosx-port branch?

Will you be duplicating what glewis does in the bsd-port branch or merging changes in the bds-port branch into the macosx-port branch?

I am wondering because:

1) The macosx-port branch is falling further behind jdk7 development.

2) There are changes specific specifically made in the bsd-port branch that should be also in the macosx-port branch.