JEP 175 - Review comments

[mark.reinhold at oracle.com]

2013/6/12 19:03 -0700, spoole at linux.vnet.ibm.com:
> On 12 Jun 2013, at 15:56, Vladimir Kozlov <vladimir.kozlov at oracle.com> wrote:
>> On 6/11/13 11:28 PM, Steve Poole wrote:
>>> Just to be clear - fixing up the open code to suit Oracles closed
>>> code is not our responsibility and should not be a gate to the
>>> merging in of the ppc-aix project.
>> 
>> Not true, your changes in shared code affects our code so you pushing
>> your problems on us.  You should avoid shared code modification which
>> affects our current sources and builds. At least in your initial big
>> changesets.
> 
> That's correct - we will work to ensure that the OpenJDK platforms are
> not broken by these contributions.  However that does not include
> Oracles closed platforms.  We understand that our contributions should
> not disadvantage the existing OpenJDK platforms on Solaris, Linux,
> Windows and Mac and that our contributions should be reasonable in
> quality and approach.
> 
> No one ever said that we would be held to account for impact to
> Oracles closed code.  In fact Volker and I spoke to Mark Reinhold on
> this topic (concerning Oracles PPC code) as FOSDEM and I'm pretty sure
> we agreed that dealing with any merge impact on Oracles implementation
> was Oracles problem.

Yes, that's correct.

- Mark