2009/4/1 Andrew Haley <a...@redhat.com>: > We at Red Hat have noticed that the list of IcedTea local patches has > been getting large, with some local patches that should have been > pushed upstream. Also, some IcedTea patches have been committed to > OpenJDK 7 but not OpenJDK 6. > > So, we're going to have a serious attempt to minimize the number of > IcedTea patches. We'll create a Wiki page at icedtea.classpath.org > that is a list of the patches, and for every one we're going to > discuss whether it should stay IcedTea local, be pushed upstream to > OpenJDK, or be deleted altogether. Then we will create OpenJDK > bugzilla entries for the patches that we think should be integrated > upstream and work with Sun engineers to get that done. > > I hope that it will be possible to reduce the number of patches to a > fraction of what we have at the moment, while improving the quality of > the upstream product. > > This is going to be quite a lot of work, so we'd appreciate help from > anyone. > > I hope this will meet with everyone's approval. > > Andrew. >
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