Trivial patches can be accepted without the provider being an OCA
signatory. However the patch must be provided using OpenJDK technology
so it can't be taken from an external website, but if small enough
should be included inline in an email message.
Thanks,
David
On 20/11/2015 1:45 PM, Quanah Gibson-Mount wrote:
--On Thursday, November 19, 2015 10:34 PM -0500 Andrew Hughes
<gnu.and...@redhat.com> wrote:
[Adding in the 8u mailing list]
----- Original Message -----
Hi,
Hi Andrew,
Thanks for the follow up!
Actually, that won't get you u66 unless you explicitly check out a tag.
The current tip of 8u is currently receiving fixes people are pushing for
u76, which I believe is due to be released next April, at the same time
as the u75 security update, which will be based on u72.
Yes, I use a tag for building. However, that process is completely
unreliable UNLESS you use my patch, because the tag is not passed down
when pulling out the sub modules, which means you get mismatched code.
I.e., without my patch, you cannot build a consistent OpenJDK release
against a specific tag.
<http://fpaste.org/289480/44729880/>
As we rely heavily on being able to provide up to date, consistent,
secure OpenJDK builds to our customers, having the process to build new
releases be reliable is of significant importance. I imagine that is
the case for many others as well.
Another problem I've also observed. I'm happy for you to ping me if you
have a patch and need a bug opening (I've done this for colleagues at Red
Hat), but as Dalibor mentions in response, the OCA needs to be sorted
first. There's not much point opening a bug with a patch if the patch
can't be committed for legal reasons.
I can't see why it'd be a problem to have the patch committed. It's
literally modifying hgforest.sh to include the ${command_args} command
line options that were originally passed get_source.sh. Again, without
this patch, there is literally no way to build OpenJDK where all
portions of the checkout from mercurial are fixed to a given tag.
--Quanah
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Quanah Gibson-Mount
Platform Architect
Zimbra, Inc.
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