On 31/01/2014 23:46, Joseph Darcy wrote:
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Discussions are on going as to which forest client libraries fixes
should go into, the client forest (where closed-source deployment
changes happen to be going) or to the dev forest where all the other
libraries work is going; FWIW, I favor the latter.
I would too but I assume it depends on whether the changes require any
special pre-integration testing that would prohibit weekly or more
frequent integrations into master.
In any case, for all the forests which will be integrating into dev,
including the client and hotspot forests, the maintainers of those
forests are responsible for regularly pulling down changes from dev
and merging them in. In my estimation, unless there is a reason for
temporary isolation, the frequency of syncing with dev should be
closer to daily than weekly or monthly. The dev forest was open for
business on Dec. 13, 2013, and fixes started going into it that day.
From my reading of the JDK 9 master
(http://hg.openjdk.java.net/jdk9/jdk9/jdk/), the tag for jdk9-b01 was
added about three weeks ago. So if the first sync from dev into client
has only done in the last day or two, that would seem to be tardy to me.
I assume that since this is a new structure that it will take time to
get used to. While I'm not too concerned about jdk9/client being behind
for a bit, I do wonder about the changes backing up in jdk9/client. I
don't think there has been any client->dev push yet and some of the
changes in jdk9/client were pushed in December. Hopefully that will be
sorted out soon.
The goal for dev is to have integrations into master no less than
weekly, but I'd like us to transition to having smaller and more
frequent integrations. We are laying the foundational work, cleaning
up intermittent test failures, etc. to allow that to happen.
Indeed, and I expect that the test work will continue for a long time.
-Alan.
