Repository? -- How many lines of development?

[Martin Buchholz]

On Fri, Nov 18, 2016 at 8:33 AM, joe darcy <joe.darcy at oracle.com> wrote:

> * A master forest, serving the roles master and dev play today in 9.
>
> With a few exceptions, in JDK 9 master was just time-delayed copy of dev
> so we can implement recording the  information about which set of sources
> correspond to a promoted build without using a whole other forest.
>
> Rather than using a separate line of development for client-libs work as
> in 9, I think this should be done in the same line of development as all
> other libs work in 10.
>

For many years, I've been advocating having a guaranteed always-working,
never regressing master and also always a place for developers to
submit-and-forget their (possibly slightly buggy) changes.  All regressions
that could be caught by a test are 100% guaranteed to be caught by a
competent trusted release engineer who is the only one ever moving changes
into the master forest.  Based on this idea, it seems essential to have
something like a jdk10-dev forest (it could also be implemented using
mercurial branches, but that would be a break with many decades of
tradition).

I notice today the message
http://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/quality-discuss/2016-November/000596.html
where regressions have crept into a jdk9 build, which is disappointing.
The whole point of regression testing is to ensure that regressions don't
happen!  And I recall having that job myself back in 2005!
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