Plans for syncing ppc-aix-port/stage with jdk8u-dev

[Volker Simonis]

Sounds good.

Thanks,
Volker


On Tue, Feb 18, 2014 at 8:52 PM, Vladimir Kozlov
<vladimir.kozlov at oracle.com> wrote:
> The current plan is to do the final merge from ppc-aix-port/stage to
> jdk8u-dev after I get "GO" from SQE after current testing of changes in
> hs/hs-comp is done (it is still not finished :( ).
>
> I definitely can do additional merges from jdk8u-dev into ppc/stage before
> that. I will do merge this Friday when jdk8u-dev synced with master jdk8u.
>
> Thanks,
> Vladimir
>
>
> On 2/18/14 3:29 AM, Volker Simonis wrote:
>>
>> Hi Vladimir,
>>
>> what are your plans for syncing ppc-aix-port/stage with jdk8u-dev?
>>
>> Do you only want to do it right before we push ppc-aix-port/stage to
>> jdk8u-dev?
>>
>> I'm just asking, because things are becoming increasingly complex (at
>> least for me:)
>>
>> - For example I'm waiting for 7133499 to arrive in jdk8u (will
>> hopefully happen soon under Bug ID 8033139 which is a backport of
>> 7133499). But after that I'll have to fix AIX in stage.
>>
>> - We also did change "8033154: PPC64: Fix AIX build after integration
>> into jdk9/dev" after we integrated stage-9 into jdk9/dev. A part of
>> this fix will be probably needed in stage as well, depending on which
>> changes from jdk9 have also been downported to jdk8u.
>>
>> I think it would be good to do at least one (perhaps even two) rounds
>> of syncing stage with jsk8u before we finally push stage to jdk8u.
>> This will give us the chance of fixing all the problems in stage and
>> avoids the necessity of fixing them later in jdk8u directly.
>>
>> What do you think?
>>
>> Thanks and best regards,
>> Volker
>>
>