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.
Absolutely - thank you very much for pushing for this, Andrew! cheers, dalibor topic > > I hope this will meet with everyone's approval. > > Andrew. -- ******************************************************************* Dalibor Topic Tel: (+49 40) 23 646 738 Java F/OSS Ambassador AIM: robiladonaim Sun Microsystems GmbH Mobile: (+49 177) 2664 192 Nagelsweg 55 http://openjdk.java.net D-20097 Hamburg mailto:dalibor.to...@sun.com Sitz der Gesellschaft: Sonnenallee 1, D-85551 Kirchheim-Heimstetten Amtsgericht München: HRB 161028 Geschäftsführer: Thomas Schröder, Wolfgang Engels, Dr. Roland Bömer Vorsitzender des Aufsichtsrates: Martin Häring
