Oracle's Committers to staging repo

[Volker Simonis]

Per the OpenJDK Bylaws, it is only possible to appoint committers at
project startup.
Later on, the only way to become committer for a project is to cast a vote.

Vladimir and Albert are mostly expected to work on the "closed" part of our
repository which we (i.e. "we from outside Oracle") can't do anyway.

As far as I a understand it, Oracle will push their "closed" PPC port into
our staging repository. We won't be able to see it because the closed part
is a separate sub-forest in the hotspot directory. But the Oracle folks
will then be able to build and test their closed PPC port right from our
staging repository.
@Iris: is my understanding right here? Is it really possible to place the
"closed" PPC port into our "open" staging repository?

I admit that's a strange constellation for an open source project and I
totally agree with you that it should be Oracles sole responsibility to fix
problems with their closed ports but taking into account the real
circumstances I think it is the best and most pragmatic solution would to
go this way. After all - the faster Oracle fixes the problems with their
closed port, the faster we get into the main branch:)

And if we all do vote now (after all we're currently just 4 committres) we
wouldn't even have to wait until the full voting period of 14 days ends:)

Regards,
Volker



On Fri, Jun 14, 2013 at 1:32 PM, Steve Poole <spoole at linux.vnet.ibm.com>wrote:

> Hmm -  shouldn't the staging repo be setup so that both ppc-aix and jdk8
> committers have write permissions?  (Rather than having to artifically add
> people to the ppc project?)
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> On 14 Jun 2013, at 09:47, Volker Simonis <volker.simonis at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Sorry, it seems I was overhasty!
> I can only appoint Authors, so I'll start a vote for you to make you
> committers.
>
> Regards,
> Volker
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> On Fri, Jun 14, 2013 at 10:36 AM, Volker Simonis <volker.simonis at gmail.com
> > wrote:
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>> Sure, and the good thing is that we don't need any vote for this! I'll
>> just appoint you as committers - somtimes autarchy is great:)
>> I'll send a mail to the openjdk registrar.
>>
>> Regards,
>> Volkre
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>> On Thu, Jun 13, 2013 at 7:01 PM, Vladimir Kozlov <
>> vladimir.kozlov at oracle.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Volker,
>>>
>>> Do we (me and Albert) need to have ppc-aix project committer status to
>>> be able push into Hotspot staging repo http://hg.openjdk.java.net/**
>>> ppc-aix-port/stage/hotspot<http://hg.openjdk.java.net/ppc-aix-port/stage/hotspot>
>>> ?
>>>
>>> Albert is located in your time zone and will help with running tests on
>>> Oracle side (with closed repos) and using JPRT. And he also may help with
>>> periodic sync staging repo with jdk8/tl. We needs this if we have to adjust
>>> Oracle closed sources.
>>>
>>> Regards,
>>> Vladimir
>>>
>>
>>
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