----- Original Message ----- > Hello, > > On 03/13/2013 09:02 PM, Andrew Haley wrote: > > Oracle ended public updates of JDK6 at the end of last month. Many > > people seem to have concluded that the OpenJDK6 project will > > therefore > > end at the same time. This is incorrect: OpenJDK6 will continue, > > but > > will be maintained by the community outside Oracle. > > > > This will require some infrastructure changes. In particular, > > because > > we are to maintain OpenJDK6 outside Oracle we need a bug database > > to > > which we have full access. At present, only people inside Oracle > > can > > create and update bug reports. Oracle intend to rectify this > > situation sometime in the summer, but in the meantime we need > > something we can use. I therefore propose to create an OpenJDK 6 > > project on java.net and use a JIRA bug database there. Once Oracle > > has a fully-open bug database we can transfer bugs to it. While > > I'm > > aware that this is not ideal, I believe it is the only way that we > > can > > run this project independently of Oracle. > > > > A few questions I've been asked: > > > > * What will be the policy for future changes? > > > > OpenJDK 6 is a legacy project. People only use it because they > > want > > long-term stability and compatibility. Therefore, only changes > > that > > fix significant bugs should be made. This is not a policy change > > from > > that discussed on http://openjdk.java.net/projects/jdk6/ > Question about two features, that are not bugfixes, but may be useful > in > jdk6: > > 1) unlimited crypto support: > - makefile patch from jdk7 [1] > - maillist thread [2] >
We already do this in IcedTea, but in a more brutal way which is why it was never upstreamed. I'd have to test out to see if the same small fix is enough on 6 as it is on 7, because the crypto code relating to this was simplified somewhat in 7. The same fix may not work on 6. > 2) missed copyMemory method in sun.misc.Unsafe: > - maillist thread [3] > - patch that I'm using in my local jdk6 builds [4] > - original patch that removed proper copyMemory method [5] > If you read the thread, you'll see I already pretty much agreed this would be ok, but I don't think I ever got chance to test it out. > Are there any chances for them to be included into jdk6? > They'd both be good candidates. > > > > * What about security updates? > > > > We'll back-port them as they arrive and commit them to OpenJDK 6. > > However, there may be some delay because of the effort and testing > > that back-porting requires. Therefore, if you want the most secure > > and up-to-date version of OpenJDK, you should update to OpenJDK 7. > > We'll also fix any security bugs that are found in OpenJDK 6 alone, > > but again there may be some delay. > > > > * What about Windows/Mac/etc builds? > > > > I really don't know. If the Windows/Mac/etc community want to get > > involved, then there will be updates for those platforms. If not, > > there won't be. It's up to them. > > > > * How long will this project continue for? > > > > The duration of support for OpenJDK 6 depends on how active its > > developers remain as part of the OpenJDK community. As things > > stand > > today, Red Hat (my current employer) is taking the lead in > > supporting > > the OpenJDK 6 project. It is conceivable that this project will be > > maintained beyond the duration of Red Hat's commitment. That > > ultimately depends on the community. > > > > Finally, this is a significant moment for OpenJDK. We look forward > > to > > working with the wider community of OpenJDK 6 users and developers > > on > > this project. > > > > Andrew. > > [1] > http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~andrew/100062/webrev.01/make/javax/crypto/Makefile.udiff.html > [2] > http://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/build-dev/2012-September/006798.html > [3] > http://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/jdk6-dev/2013-January/002836.html > [4] https://gist.github.com/alexkasko/5156174 > [5] > http://hg.openjdk.java.net/jdk6/jdk6/jdk/diff/39e8fe7a0af1/src/share/classes/sun/misc/Unsafe.java > > -- > Regards, > Alex Kasko > -- Andrew :) Free Java Software Engineer Red Hat, Inc. (http://www.redhat.com) PGP Key: 248BDC07 (https://keys.indymedia.org/) Fingerprint = EC5A 1F5E C0AD 1D15 8F1F 8F91 3B96 A578 248B DC07
