G'day Andrew, On Tue, Nov 10, 2009 at 02:12:17AM +0000, Andrew John Hughes wrote: > 2009/11/10 Kurt Miller <k...@intricatesoftware.com>: > > It would be fantastic if Sun would host a mercurial repository > > for OpenJDK6 (i.e. bsd-port6 or the like). Is there a chance that > > Sun could set that up for us? The lack of a central repository is > > one of the reasons I haven't worked on OpenBSD support for OpenJDK. > > Rather than creating a new separate tree, how about we just try and > get the necessary changes into OpenJDK6 directly? > Then that would give a good base to move forward on getting support in 7 too.
For me, the latter is the key question. How do we move forward with getting BSD support (ultimately) into the current development tree so we have less heavy lifting to do going forward? That's what I'd really like to come out of the discussion here. I think we've been pretty good at keeping the bsd-port tree of OpenJDK7 up to date (its currently at b75 and I'll start moving it to b76 once that tag goes down) but we still don't seem to be any closer to getting the changes into the main source tree than we were when we started. How do we move forward with that? Is Sun's preferred method for us to go through OpenJDK6? That certainly doesn't seem to have been the case for Zero, which is probably of a similar order of disruption, but I'm open to it for the BSD patches if there is a solid reason for doing it that way. Certainly its starting to get a little demotivating to me personally and I can't help but wonder if other team members don't feel the same. Andrew, this isn't aimed at you at all, btw, you're just kinda touching on a bit of a sore spot :). Dalibor, who needs to be involved in such a discussion and what can I do to help move it forward? -- Greg Lewis Email : gle...@eyesbeyond.com Eyes Beyond Web : http://www.eyesbeyond.com Information Technology FreeBSD : gle...@freebsd.org
