On 05/12/2013 19:42, Chris Hegarty wrote:
On 5 Dec 2013, at 19:18, Martin Buchholz<marti...@google.com> wrote:
You guys are way too trigger-happy.
I guess the reason for this is that there was a deadline today to get changes
into tl before the b120 snapshot. This is one of the final chances to get
non-showstopper changes into JDK 8.
Just to clarify. Only show stopper bugs have been allowed since Nov 21
when the JDK 8 project went into rampdown phase 2 [1]. There was an
exception proposed for documentation and test bugs [2] and several
people have been making use of that exception to fix test issues. This
is very welcome because tests just don't always get the TLC that they
deserve.
The exception for documentation and test fixes goes to Dec 12 but the
rub is that they have to be in the master (jdk8/jdk8) by that date.
Changes pushed to jdk8/tl are usually integrated into master on a
Tuesday [3] and even less obvious is that this requires taking a
snapshot a few days in advance of that to allow for build + integration
testing (an activity that happens to be getting some air time on
jdk9-dev list at the moment). I really wish this was more obvious and
the dates/cut-offs were clearly announced - this is something that we
have to improve on and fix in JDK 9.
In any case, if Martin's test update has missed the last bus to make the
Dec 12 deadline then it shouldn't be long before there is a jdk9 forest
open for business.
-Alan.
[1] http://openjdk.java.net/projects/jdk8/milestones
[2] http://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/jdk8-dev/2013-October/003443.html
[3] http://openjdk.java.net/projects/jdk8/builds
