On 16/05/2013 1:31 AM, Andrew Hughes wrote:
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On 11/05/2013 2:53 AM, Andrew Hughes wrote:
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I have offered a very simple solution to that problem to which no-one has
yet
given any reason as to why we should not implemented it; simply add a
HotSpot tree
where pushes can be made prior to JPRT runs, then perform the JPRT runs on
the commits
in that tree before merging to the main HotSpot tree. Problem solved.
You need one of these repos for each of the hotspot group repos,
otherwise the changesets won't be correct.
I'm not sure I follow this. I envision this repository as being equivalent
to e.g. hotspot-gc and merged into the main HotSpot tree in the same way.
The group repos, like hotspot-gc, only accept changes that pass JPRT and
only sync up to hotspot-main after successful bouts of nightly testing.
Your proposed repo would need an equivalent level of testing before
changes could go straight to hotspot-main, so I can only see it working
if it is treated as a child of one of the existing group repos and so we
have:
external repo -> jprt -> group repo [testing] -> jprt -> hotspot-main
But as we have multiple group repos you then need an external repo per
group - which in turn will require a "gatekeeper" from each group to
manage the logistics of the actual jprt submissions and keeping things
in sync.
David
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You also need an Oracle
employee to then push the change through JPRT - and that would be a lot
more effort than the existing processes as "we" would need to clone the
external repo first, re-parent the clone to the group repo, re-sync from
parent if needed, then do JPRT submit. Plus you need someone to update
these repos each time the "parent" gets updated.
I'm not saying it's an ideal solution; the ideal would be to allow everyone
to submit their own JPRT runs. But, in six years, there seems to be have
been no progress on this from an external standpoint.
So a simple enough idea, but the logistics are more complex.
David
