On 00:20 Fri 26 Aug , Dalibor Topic wrote: > On 8/26/11 12:05 AM, Dr Andrew John Hughes wrote: > > On 08:13 Mon 22 Aug , Kelly O'Hair wrote: > >> > >> Oh wait a minute, please check with Weijun Wang (I will CC) on 6815182. > >> I'm not seeing any record that this one was fixed in any jdk6 update, it > >> may not apply to it > >> but it is important that the fixes in openjdk6 are also in the jdk6 > >> updates when it makes sense. > >> > > > > This has never been the policy before, to my knowledge. Why should the > > proprietary JDK6, > > over which we have no control, be a blocker on bugs for OpenJDK6? For one > > thing, there > > are significant differences in the code bases, as far as I'm aware. > > There may be some good reason why the fix wasn't applied to closed6. Or there > may not be. It's > hard to tell without asking first. >
Sure, but the implication I got from Kelly's response was not that "it's worth checking up on why we didn't backport it" but a policy of "backports must be in both". Changes to proprietary Oracle products should not be prerequisites for OpenJDK changes. > cheers, > dalibor topic > > -- > Oracle <http://www.oracle.com> > Dalibor Topic | Java F/OSS Ambassador > Phone: +494023646738 <tel:+494023646738> | Mobile: +491772664192 > <tel:+491772664192> > Oracle Java Platform Group > > ORACLE Deutschland B.V. & Co. KG | Nagelsweg 55 | 20097 Hamburg > > ORACLE Deutschland B.V. & Co. KG > Hauptverwaltung: Riesstr. 25, D-80992 München > Registergericht: Amtsgericht München, HRA 95603 > > Komplementärin: ORACLE Deutschland Verwaltung B.V. > Hertogswetering 163/167, 3543 AS Utrecht, Niederlande > Handelsregister der Handelskammer Midden-Niederlande, Nr. 30143697 > Geschäftsführer: Jürgen Kunz, Marcel van de Molen, Alexander van der Ven > > Green Oracle <http://www.oracle.com/commitment> Oracle is committed to > developing practices and products that help protect the environment -- Andrew :) Free Java Software Engineer Red Hat, Inc. (http://www.redhat.com) Support Free Java! Contribute to GNU Classpath and IcedTea http://www.gnu.org/software/classpath http://icedtea.classpath.org PGP Key: F5862A37 (https://keys.indymedia.org/) Fingerprint = EA30 D855 D50F 90CD F54D 0698 0713 C3ED F586 2A37
