Initial forests for JDK 9 (original) (raw)

Volker Simonis volker.simonis at gmail.com
Tue Dec 10 14:16:39 PST 2013

Hi Mark,

why don't we create something like http://hg.openjdk.java.net/dev with master, dev, client and hotspot forest beneath it. These forests could live "forever". Any time a new release is ready, we would then clone jdk9, jdk10, etc from dev/master. Wouldn't that be a more natural setup?

Regards, Volker

On Tuesday, December 10, 2013, wrote:

I'd like to go forward with Joe's proposal [1], as informed by our discussion over the last two weeks. My thanks to Joe for driving the conversation.

To summarize, under http://hg.openjdk.java.net/jdk9 we'll have: jdk9 "Master" forest -- a time-delayed, stable version of "dev" dev Default development forest -- replaces the current "tl" forest, integrates directly into the master client Client development forest (AWT, 2D, Swing) -- integrates into "dev" after suitable manual testing hotspot HotSpot development forest -- integrates into "dev" There will also be HotSpot group forests (hotspot-{comp,emb,gc,rt}), at least for now. We'll create these forests on Thursday as clones of the JDK 8 master forest, at tag jdk8-b120. I will, as suggested, fold active HSX and Nashorn contributors into the appropriate JDK 9 Project roles. To be specific: If you hold the Author, Committer, or Reviewer role in the JDK 8 Project [2], the HSX Project [3], the Nashorn Project [4], or some combination of these Projects, and you have contributed at least one changeset to JDK 8, either directly or indirectly, then in JDK 9 you will be granted the highest of the roles that you hold amongst those Projects. - Mark

[1] http://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/jdk9-dev/2013-November/000000.html [2] http://openjdk.java.net/census#jdk8 [3] http://openjdk.java.net/census#hsx [4] http://openjdk.java.net/census#nashorn

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