2013/10/17 Dalibor Topic <dalibor.to...@oracle.com>: > On 10/17/13 4:29 PM, Andrew wrote: >> ----- Original Message ----- >>> On 10/15/13 8:50 PM, Andrew Hughes wrote: >>>> What is the benefit to "OpenJDK 7u Authors, Committers and Reviewers" of >>>> using our valuable time >>>> to do this? >>> >>> "inclusion into a CPU release before 7u60" "for" "critical fixes" "approved >>> by the Oracle JDK 7u CPU Release Team". >>> >> >> But you've just said there still isn't going to be OpenJDK CPU releases... >> > The Oracle JDK 7u CPU Release Team approves (or rejects) fixes for Oracle JDK > 7u > CPU Releases.
I'm not sure I understand why this is relevant for OpenJDK at all then. > Applicable changes are bulk integrated into OpenJDK 7u once an Oracle JDK 7u > CPU > has been released, as was the case two days ago for 7u45. If people want to commit a [security related] patch they can already do so in OpenJDK (following the usual standard procedure). So what exactly changed? Just an easier way for people to send patches to Oracle for inclusion into the closed JDK? Cheers, Mario -- pgp key: http://subkeys.pgp.net/ PGP Key ID: 80F240CF Fingerprint: BA39 9666 94EC 8B73 27FA FC7C 4086 63E3 80F2 40CF IcedRobot: www.icedrobot.org Proud GNU Classpath developer: http://www.classpath.org/ Read About us at: http://planet.classpath.org OpenJDK: http://openjdk.java.net/projects/caciocavallo/ Please, support open standards: http://endsoftpatents.org/
