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.
The page is at http://icedtea.classpath.org/wiki/IcedTea_JDK6_Patches These are the patches in icedtea/patches and icedtea/patches/hotspot. * Every patch should be assigned to someone. * Every patch should be discussed. * If we can, we will push a patch upstream. If we can't the discussion should explain why we can't. Here we go... Andrew.
