JavaFX 11 updates moving to GitHub on Wed, Apr 28

[Kevin Rushforth]

This transition is now complete. The jfx11u repo on GitHub is now 
active, and the openjfx/11-dev/rt Mercurial repo is now read-only.

-- Kevin


On 4/21/2021 3:15 PM, Kevin Rushforth wrote:
> The JavaFX 11 updates repo is moving from HG to GIT on Wednesday, 
> April 28, and will be hosted on GitHub in the openjdk group alongside 
> the mainline jfx repo, the mainline jdk repo, and many other OpenJDK 
> repos. The Skara tooling will be enabled as part of this transition.
>
> Most developers do not need to do anything as a result of this move, 
> since the JavaFX 11 updates repo is for limited-content releases, and 
> only accepts approved backports of important bug fixes.
>
> The details of the migration are below for those who are interested.
>
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>
>
> The JavaFX 11 updates project is currently using the following hg repo:
>
> https://hg.openjdk.java.net/openjfx/11-dev/rt
>
> This is the last active OpenJFX repo still using Mercurial.
>
> It is moving to the following git repo:
>
> https://github.com/openjdk/jfx11u
>
> This repo is already live on GitHub as a read-only mirror of the hg repo.
>
> Timeline:
>
> 1. Over the next couple of days I will backport a few fixes needed 
> prior to the switch to GIT.
>
> 2. Wednesday, Apr 28, 15:00 UTC : no more changes should be pushed to 
> the HG repo; it should be considered read-only from that point on (and 
> will be locked soon after that).
>
> 3. Wednesday, April 28, about 19:00 UTC : The jfx11u GIT repo will go 
> live with the Skara tooling enabled. This will include the creation of 
> a `.jcheck/conf` file as part of the transition. I will send an 
> announcement when jfx11u is open.
>
> -- Kevin
>