Andrew John Hughes wrote:
2009/4/1 Andrew John Hughes <gnu_and...@member.fsf.org>:
2009/4/1 Kelly O'Hair <kelly.oh...@sun.com>:
Andrew Haley wrote:
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.
Sounds great.
I can certainly help out with any build related (makefiles etc.)
changes.
-kto
Good, because to my knowledge, those form the majority :)
However, my guess would also be that some require extensive reworking
to be generally acceptable (e.g. providing the option to build using
system libraries rather than forcing it).
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On the other hand, there is some low-hanging fruit. Andrew Haley
reminded me of this patch earlier today:
http://bugs.sun.com/bugdatabase/view_bug.do?bug_id=6781583
which went into OpenJDK7. The patch itself should be trivial to
approve, given it has already been through the process once. The main
issue is that it relies on OpenJDK6 being updated to hs14. Is there
any news on this and of the public stable branch of this version?
I made sure there is a '6-open' version of this bug.
Not sure what the state of hs14 in OpenJDK6 is, but if hs14 is
'done' we may need to apply this patch to OpenJDK6's hotspot,
making it a hs14+ kind of.
I'll pass this decision onto Joe. ;^)
-kto
As to committing, do those on the OpenJDK commit list have access to
all repositories (given patch approval obviously) or is it restricted
in some way? As myself, Gary and Andrew Haley all are now on this
list, it would be good to start the process of committing patches
ourself once approved.
Thanks,
