Merging jdk9/hs and jdk9/dev

[Mikael Vidstedt]

All,

As you all know JDK 9 development is ramping down, and according to the JDK 9 release schedule [1] we are entering Ramp-down Phase 2 (RDP2) starting next week (March 16). While there is a small number of open issues it is reasonable to believe that the inflow of changes will approach zero over the next few days/weeks. Any changes going forward will effectively be for show stopper type bugs, and must as such be well tested and vetted before they are integrated.

Given the state we’re in with the release, and in line with earlier efforts to streamline our integration processes, we propose closing down jdk9/hs [2] and moving the remaining JDK 9 (hotspot) work directly to jdk9/dev [3]. In addition to a reduction in integration overhead, this will also shorten the lead times of getting changes into master in the final latency-sensitive phase of the release.

We propose that the final integration from jdk9/hs to jdk9/dev takes place on Thursday, March 23 after which jdk9/hs will be locked down/marked read-only to avoid any accidental integrations. Any work in flight would have to be rebased on jdk9/dev. Just like today, Hotspot integrations will still be made using JPRT.

Earlier consolidation projects have gone smoothly, but we will be keeping an extra eye on things and ask for your patience as we work through any issues.

Please let us know if you have any feedback or questions! If no serious objections have been raised by 15:00 UTC Thursday, March 16, we will go ahead with the forest consolidation as described.

[1] http://openjdk.java.net/projects/jdk9/
[2] http://hg.openjdk.java.net/jdk9/hs
[3] http://hg.openjdk.java.net/jdk9/dev