Hi, thanks for your replies. I was only afraid that we would have to go trough a new round of reviews if we have to get new Bug-IDs for every change.
But Iris just clarified that we will get a second, JDK 9 staging repository once JDK 9 will be forked. So we will have to down- or up-port our ppc-aix changes to both staging repositories afterwards. But for this extra work we will have the benefit that we will be able to immediately bulk-integrate ppc-aix-stage into the corresponding jdk8u and ppc-aix-stage-9 into jdk9 repository. That's fine for us:) With best regards, Volker On Tue, Dec 3, 2013 at 5:48 PM, <mark.reinh...@oracle.com> wrote: > 2013/12/2 17:37 -0800, volker.simo...@gmail.com: >> if I understand this right, there's another downside of the approach >> you propose: you can't easily downport changes from JDK9 to JDK8 >> update releases. This is because changes in JDK9 (i.e. our >> ppc-aix-port) will have ancestor changes in JDK9 which are not in JDK8 >> (i.e. they are there, but they are different changes with the same >> content because they have been imported and not pulled into JDK9). >> >> So what will be the best way to downport something from JDK9 to JDK8. >> The only possiblity I see is again to "cherry pick"; i.e., export the >> change from JDK9 and import it into JDK8. Do you see other >> possibilities? > > No, but as Alan said, we already do this all the time from JDK 8 > to the JDK 7 updates. It's really not that hard -- the hg import > and export commands take care of most of the details. > > - Mark > > > P.S. It's "JDK 8" and "JDK 9". Note the space after the "K".
