Re: Coherent release process

2015-12-04 Thread Andrew Hughes
- Original Message - > > > On 20.11.2015 04:39, Andrew Hughes wrote: > >> The corresponding Project's mailing list, jdk8u-dev, is the right place > >> to ask questions about JDK 8 Updates in OpenJDK. The JDK 8 Project has > >> completed its wo

Re: Coherent release process

2015-11-19 Thread Andrew Hughes
- Original Message - > On 12.11.2015 04:42, Quanah Gibson-Mount wrote: > > if/when the OpenJDK project may develop a more coherent release plan? > > You can find the plans for JDK 9 at > http://openjdk.java.net/projects/jdk9/ . The plans for JDK 8 Updates are > linked off the Project pa

Re: Coherent release process

2015-11-19 Thread Andrew Hughes
[Adding in the 8u mailing list] - Original Message - > Hi, > > I was wondering if/when the OpenJDK project may develop a more coherent > release plan? Right now, there seems to be no consistent strategy, which > makes it very difficult for downstream consumers of OpenJDK to be able to >

Re: java -version output for JDK8

2013-07-26 Thread Andrew Hughes
- Original Message - > Hi Kumar, > > On 07/25/2013 07:05 PM, Kumar Srinivasan wrote: > > Changing any of these lines is very painful, because too many > > scripts and tests have made assumptions on these lines, and some of > > these are System properties which are baked at build time. >

Re: java -version output for JDK8

2013-07-25 Thread Andrew Hughes
- Original Message - > On 24/07/2013 5:05 PM, Omair Majid wrote: > > Hi, > > > > It was just brought to my attention that the output of java -version is > > different on builds of jdk8 when compared to jdk7 [1]: > > > > # java -version > > openjdk version "1.8.0-internal" > > OpenJDK Runt

Result: New OpenJDK 8 Reviewer: Omair Majid

2013-04-24 Thread Andrew Hughes
Voting for Omair Majid [1] is now closed. Yes: 7 Veto: 0 Abstain: 0 According to the Bylaws definition of a Three-Vote Consensus, this is sufficient to approve the nomination. [1] http://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/jdk8-dev/2013-April/002267.html -- Andrew :) Free Java Software Engineer Re

Re: CFV: New OpenJDK8 Reviewer: Omair Majid

2013-04-08 Thread Andrew Hughes
- Original Message - > I hereby nominate Omair Majid for the position of OpenJDK 8 reviewer. > > Omair has been working on OpenJDK since his internship at Red Hat in May > 2008, > and has continued doing so after obtaining full-time employment in June 2010. > In this time, he has committ

CFV: New OpenJDK8 Reviewer: Omair Majid

2013-04-08 Thread Andrew Hughes
I hereby nominate Omair Majid for the position of OpenJDK 8 reviewer. Omair has been working on OpenJDK since his internship at Red Hat in May 2008, and has continued doing so after obtaining full-time employment in June 2010. In this time, he has committed many changesets to OpenJDK (the commit l

Re: OpenJDK 8 and Fedora 17

2012-08-30 Thread Andrew Hughes
- Original Message - > Hi to all, > > I could build (using old build system), jdk8 on CentOS 5/6, OpenSuse > 12.1 but it fail on Fedora 17. > > Strange error where sanity report invalid ant version whereas ant > 1.8.4 is installed and added to PATH. > > --- > > UNIXCOMMAND_PATH = /bi

Re: [jdk7-dev] On the build dependency upon gtk+

2012-07-30 Thread Andrew Hughes
- Original Message - > On 7/25/12 6:04 PM, Marc-Antoine Perennou wrote: > > Hi, > > > > With my company, we use a source-based linux distribution, and > > since we are > > using Java, we need to build the jdk. > > Currently, in order to be able to build the jdk, gtk+-2 and cups > > need

Re: LJC OpenJDK Warnings hack day

2012-04-20 Thread Andrew Hughes
- Original Message - > Hi all, > > FYI - We'll be holding another compiler warnings squashing day on the > 23rd > of April, 1830+ BST. A few of the 'instructors' (we use the term > loosely > as we're all still learning) will pop up on IRC, but we hope to keep > our > chatter down to a min