Hearing no objection, we plan to switch the official jfx repo from the
existing HG openjfx/jfx-dev/rt [1] repo to the GIT openjdk/jfx [2] repo
hosted on GitHub on Thursday, September 26, two weeks from today. By way
of disclaimer, please be aware that the JEP for moving the JDK repos to
GIT [3] is not yet completed, nor has the follow-on JEP to specify the
hosting provider for the JDK repos been filed. As such, this should be
considered "early access", although I don't anticipate further changes.
Here is an overview of the transition timeline. More details, including
actions that OpenJFX Contributors need to take, will be communicated
after next week's Oracle Code One.
Now through Tuesday, September 24
* Follow the existing procedures for code reviews: either use a PR
against the javafxports/openjdk-jfx [4] sandbox repo on GitHub or a
webrev posted at cr.openjdk.java.net [5] -- in either case send an RFR email
* Approved fixes will continue to be pushed to the HG openjfx/jfx-dev/rt
repo by a Committer
Wednesday, September 25
* The HG openjfx/jfx-dev/rt repo will be made read-only (exact time tbd,
probably around noon Pacific time)
* The javafxports/openjdk-jfx sandbox repo will be "retired" at this
time. Developers will be responsible for migrating open pull requests to
openjdk/jfx (I will send out instructions to make this as easy as possible).
Thursday, September 26
* The Skara team will turn off the mirroring of HG openjfx/jfx-dev/rt
--> GIT openjdk/jfx
* I will push a commit to enable jcheck to the openjdk/jfx repo on GitHub
* The Skara team will enable the Skara tooling
* I will send an announcement that openjdk/jfx is open for pull requests
on GitHub
Please let me know if there are any questions about the transition.
-- Kevin
[1] https://hg.openjdk.java.net/openjfx/jfx-dev/rt
[2] https://github.com/openjdk/jfx
[3] https://openjdk.java.net/jeps/357
[4] https://github.com/javafxports/openjdk-jfx
[5] https://cr.openjdk.java.net/
On 8/20/2019 3:14 PM, Kevin Rushforth wrote:
To: OpenJFX Contributors,
As most of you are aware, Project Skara is moving forward with a
proposed JEP [1] to migrate various OpenJDK projects to git, likely
hosted on GitHub. A read-only git mirror of the HG openjfx/jfx-dev/rt
repo [2] is available on GitHub at openjdk/jfx [3]. Similarly, there
is a read-only mirror of the jdk/jdk repo [4] as well.
We've been talking with the Skara team about having OpenJFX be one of
the "early adopters" in the git transition. Since a large percentage
of the JavaFX code reviews are already happening on GitHub as pull
requests against the javafxports/openjdk-jfx (sandbox) mirror, the
OpenJFX project would be a natural fit for this.
For contributors who are not Committers, there won't be many
differences, other than some of the steps will go away (e.g., the
Skara tooling will automate the RFR email). For Committers, there will
be some minor differences, primarily around eliminating steps -- no
more need to merge the pull request into "develop", export the patch,
import it into a Mercurial repo, and push it to the official HG repo.
Instead, you will use the "/integrate" command as a PR comment to
merge the pull request, and then you are done. You will still need to
update JBS, at least initially, to resolve the bug as fixed and add
the URL to the commit, but even that will be automated at some point.
Developers who are interested in leaning more about the Skara tools
and workflow can find information on the Skara Wiki [5], GitHub
project [6], and mailing list [7]. I note that using the Skara
client-side tools on your desktop is completely optional. I expect
many (most?) developers will use the GitHub workflow they are already
used to via the web interface, but there is an option for those who
want to use the command line tools like "git pr".
As a final note, I recommend waiting to create a personal fork of the
openjdk/jfx mirror, since the Skara team is going to re-convert all
openjdk/* mirrors in a couple days [8], and you will just end up
having to delete and refork.
Comments on this proposal are welcome.
-- Kevin
[1] https://openjdk.java.net/jeps/357
[2] http://hg.openjdk.java.net/openjfx/jfx-dev/rt
[3] https://github.com/openjdk/jfx
[4] https://github.com/openjdk/jdk
[5] https://wiki.openjdk.java.net/display/skara
[6] https://github.com/openjdk/skara
[7] https://mail.openjdk.java.net/mailman/listinfo/skara-dev
[8]
https://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/skara-dev/2019-August/000327.html
