hg.openjdk.java.net/sumatra/sumatra-*

[John Rose]

On Feb 5, 2013, at 8:02 AM, "Deneau, Tom" <tom.deneau at amd.com> wrote:

> I noticed there are sumatra repositories at 
>      http://hg.openjdk.java.net/sumatra/sumatra-dev/
> and
>      http://hg.openjdk.java.net/sumatra/sumatra-dev-gate
> 
> Could someone at Oracle
>   * explain the difference between the two trees, sumatra-dev and sumatra-dev-gate

The *-dev-gate repos are for writing and the *-dev repos are for reading.
This is normal for OpndJDK; see:
  http://openjdk.java.net/guide/repositories.html#term
  http://openjdk.java.net/guide/

>   * confirm whether these are able to be committed to

I plan to commit a trial README file to make sure things are mutable.

Here is a draft of the content:
  https://wikis.oracle.com/display/HotSpotInternals/SumatraRepositoryInfo 

Please edit!  (Tom, you are a wiki editor, BTW.)

>   * and if they are ready, review what policy we will use for committing 
>     including what form of branching we will use.


That's partly up to us, especially what we put into the scratch repo.

— John