Re: OpenJDK7 build and contributions

2015-05-21 Thread Mani Sarkar
Thanks Dalibor, Ivan for chipping in and giving a better idea of how things will flow for OpenJDK7 since its EOL. Cheers, Mani On Wed, May 6, 2015 at 10:50 PM, Mani Sarkar wrote: > Hi, > > Does EOL of Java 7 mean this mailing list and the hg repo won't be active > anymore? Are you still accepti

Re: OpenJDK7 build and contributions

2015-05-07 Thread Ivan Krylov
Thank you for this clarification. Ivan On 07/05/2015 17:29, dalibor topic wrote: On 07.05.2015 11:47, Ivan Krylov wrote: Oracle will select a company that would declared as the maintainer of the project. For OpenJDK6 the maintainer is Red Hat. That company will set the policies for updates, et

Re: OpenJDK7 build and contributions

2015-05-07 Thread dalibor topic
On 07.05.2015 11:47, Ivan Krylov wrote: Oracle will select a company that would declared as the maintainer of the project. For OpenJDK6 the maintainer is Red Hat. That company will set the policies for updates, etc. Not quite. It's important to get the terminology right. A Projects has a Proje

Re: OpenJDK7 build and contributions

2015-05-07 Thread dalibor topic
On 06.05.2015 23:50, Mani Sarkar wrote: Hi, Does EOL of Java 7 mean this mailing list and the hg repo won't be active anymore? Ah, I just noticed that this questions is about the EOL of Java 7, instead of the end of public updates - two very different things. Looking at http://www.oracle.

Re: OpenJDK7 build and contributions

2015-05-07 Thread dalibor topic
On 06.05.2015 23:50, Mani Sarkar wrote: Hi, Does EOL of Java 7 mean this mailing list and the hg repo won't be active anymore? Not necessarily. A future Project Lead may decide to continue to use this mailing list and this project's forests. Are you still accepting contributions for Open

Re: OpenJDK7 build and contributions

2015-05-07 Thread Ivan Krylov
Hi Mani, I think it is reasonable to expect that OpenJDK7 will follow the footsteps of OpenJDK6. Oracle will select a company that would declared as the maintainer of the project. For OpenJDK6 the maintainer is Red Hat. That company will set the policies for updates, etc. In my understanding,

OpenJDK7 build and contributions

2015-05-06 Thread Mani Sarkar
Hi, Does EOL of Java 7 mean this mailing list and the hg repo won't be active anymore? Are you still accepting contributions for OpenJDK7 - who can contribute and what kinds of contributions are accepted? I also have tried to build OpenJDK7 on Ubuntu and builds fine but when building on Fedora I