2009/11/10 Christos Zoulas <chris...@zoulas.com>: > On Nov 9, 7:59pm, gle...@eyesbeyond.com (Greg Lewis) wrote: > -- Subject: Re: OpenJDK 6 Build 17 > > | 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? > > Just to put my own 2c in the discussion, a lot of the changes are > non-controvercial and they fix bugs (such as incorrect argument passing > of int where it should have been socklen_t, etc.). Could at least those > get merged so that the amount of diff is reduced? Who is going to do it? > Can we help by producing a diff of what we think are non-controvercial? > > christos >
That's the kind of low-hanging fruit I was thinking would be good to start with. Once changesets are in OpenJDK7, it's relatively trival to get them into OpenJDK6 too. -- Andrew :-) Free Java Software Engineer Red Hat, Inc. (http://www.redhat.com) Support Free Java! Contribute to GNU Classpath and the OpenJDK http://www.gnu.org/software/classpath http://openjdk.java.net PGP Key: 94EFD9D8 (http://subkeys.pgp.net) Fingerprint: F8EF F1EA 401E 2E60 15FA 7927 142C 2591 94EF D9D8
