[7u6] Request for phase 2 approval for CR 7188168: 7071904 broke the DEBUG_BINARIES option on Linux (original) (raw)

Andrew Hughes ahughes at redhat.com
Mon Aug 13 12:32:12 PDT 2012

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On 8/10/12 7:52 PM, Andrew Hughes wrote: > ----- Original Message ----- >> Andrew, >> >> Unfortunately this request comes very late in the 7u6 >> stabilization >> phase. Thorough testing & analysis is almost complete and we're >> preparing for release. > > Hmmm... was this announced somewhere? All I see in my archives are > the initial > announcement of the branch and I vaguely recall something about > "August", nothing > more specific, but I may have missed something.

I believe that Sean's 'phase 2 progress' mail came in while you were on vacation: http://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/jdk7u-dev/2012-July/003862.html

I think this is where I remember the "August" reference from. I think exact deadlines will help as we see more community involvement in jdk7u.

> Is there a webpage that tracks the release process? I don't see > anything on > http://openjdk.java.net/projects/jdk7u/ It would be easier for us > to work > to deadlines if we knew what they were :-)

That'd be a good thing for us to add for 7u8.

Something as simple as a few bullet points with the proposed dates for each stage & release would be good enough. Having this in a calendar-parsable format would be a bonus.

>>From our perspective, this is critical. Without this fixed, tools > can't work with the debug information on x86. > > We can work around this by patching in IcedTea (we've actually > already > applied it there) but we're working towards a scenario where we > will be > able to use OpenJDK directly and avoid IcedTea. If we're not able > to get > fixes in during the latter stages of a release, then making such a > switch > becomes unfeasible.

I think this fix would have been a good fit in phase 2 for 7u6 if it had come in a week or two ago in late July, and maybe even early August - around the tim of Sean's e-mail above. Given that we can work around it in Icedtea, I think it's a better fit for 7u8 now - that's the low risk choice.

I see your point. It was partly to test the waters to see how feasible working directly with OpenJDK is. Still work to be done on both sides.

I think we'll need to give some thought to downstream testing cycles for 7u8 to ensure that we can catch and fix any such regressions earlier during the development of the release.

On our side, we have been tracking things a lot more closely for u6. We branched at about the same time for 2.3 and I expect a release around the same time.

>> With this issue not affecting the product >> JDK bits, > > I'm not sure what you mean. Can you explain? This does affect > what we ship.

I think that Sean meant the regular, default build.

As we have with IcedTea, we probably need to decide which build options we regard as critical to release and which not.

>> can I ask that you push this fix to the jdk7u-dev repo >> instead. > > Well, I was going to propose it for the main tree too, but I went > for u6 first > as I was aware there was less time for that. Apparently, there's > even less than > I thought... :-) Do I need to send a fresh mail for this or can I > just push?

No need to send a fresh mail, consider it approved for 7u8. And thanks for catching & fixing the issue!

Thanks. Pushed: http://hg.openjdk.java.net/jdk7u/jdk7u-dev/hotspot/rev/aff265cb73a3

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