----- Original Message ----- > On 8/10/12 7:52 PM, Andrew Hughes wrote: > > ----- Original Message ----- > >> Andrew, > >> > >> Unfortunately this request comes very late in the 7u6 > >> stabilization > >> phase. Thorough testing & analysis is almost complete and we're > >> preparing for release. > > > > Hmmm... was this announced somewhere? All I see in my archives are > > the initial > > announcement of the branch and I vaguely recall something about > > "August", nothing > > more specific, but I may have missed something. > > I believe that Sean's 'phase 2 progress' mail came in while you were > on vacation: > http://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/jdk7u-dev/2012-July/003862.html >
I think this is where I remember the "August" reference from. I think exact deadlines will help as we see more community involvement in jdk7u. > > Is there a webpage that tracks the release process? I don't see > > anything on > > http://openjdk.java.net/projects/jdk7u/ It would be easier for us > > to work > > to deadlines if we knew what they were :-) > > That'd be a good thing for us to add for 7u8. > Something as simple as a few bullet points with the proposed dates for each stage & release would be good enough. Having this in a calendar-parsable format would be a bonus. > >>From our perspective, this is critical. Without this fixed, tools > > can't work with the debug information on x86. > > > > We can work around this by patching in IcedTea (we've actually > > already > > applied it there) but we're working towards a scenario where we > > will be > > able to use OpenJDK directly and avoid IcedTea. If we're not able > > to get > > fixes in during the latter stages of a release, then making such a > > switch > > becomes unfeasible. > > I think this fix would have been a good fit in phase 2 for 7u6 if it > had > come in a week or two ago in late July, and maybe even early August - > around the > tim of Sean's e-mail above. Given that we can work around it in > Icedtea, I think > it's a better fit for 7u8 now - that's the low risk choice. > I see your point. It was partly to test the waters to see how feasible working directly with OpenJDK is. Still work to be done on both sides. > I think we'll need to give some thought to downstream testing cycles > for 7u8 to > ensure that we can catch and fix any such regressions earlier during > the development > of the release. > On our side, we have been tracking things a lot more closely for u6. We branched at about the same time for 2.3 and I expect a release around the same time. > >> With this issue not affecting the product > >> JDK bits, > > > > I'm not sure what you mean. Can you explain? This does affect > > what we ship. > > I think that Sean meant the regular, default build. > As we have with IcedTea, we probably need to decide which build options we regard as critical to release and which not. > >> can I ask that you push this fix to the jdk7u-dev repo > >> instead. > > > > Well, I was going to propose it for the main tree too, but I went > > for u6 first > > as I was aware there was less time for that. Apparently, there's > > even less than > > I thought... :-) Do I need to send a fresh mail for this or can I > > just push? > > No need to send a fresh mail, consider it approved for 7u8. And > thanks for > catching & fixing the issue! > Thanks. Pushed: http://hg.openjdk.java.net/jdk7u/jdk7u-dev/hotspot/rev/aff265cb73a3 > cheers, > dalibor topic > -- > Oracle <http://www.oracle.com> > Dalibor Topic | Principal Product Manager > Phone: +494089091214 <tel:+494089091214> | Mobile: +491737185961 > <tel:+491737185961> > 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 > Geschäftsführer: Jürgen Kunz > > Komplementärin: ORACLE Deutschland Verwaltung B.V. > Hertogswetering 163/167, 3543 AS Utrecht, Niederlande > Handelsregister der Handelskammer Midden-Niederlande, Nr. 30143697 > Geschäftsführer: Alexander van der Ven, Astrid Kepper, Val Maher > > 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) PGP Key: 248BDC07 (https://keys.indymedia.org/) Fingerprint = EC5A 1F5E C0AD 1D15 8F1F 8F91 3B96 A578 248B DC07
