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November 2007 Archives

OpenJDK Mercurial Transition Update 7

Update 7

Ok ok, call us snails if you want... but things are progressing, really. We are currently going through a "dry run" event of having team integrators and developers learn Mercurial, clone the experimental repositories, push fake changes, and verify that the repositories work and the servers are stable. If you are on the build-dev@openjdk.java.net alias you may have seen the emails when the push events happened. So far so good, we haven't gone running back to TeamWare, yet, (that's a joke :^). Once Build 24 promotes and the repositories are declared official we can all get back to real work on the jdk.

So when will Build 24 promote? The Thanksgiving week created a bit of a problem, we came up with an unofficial perhaps slightly aggressive target of last week in November. So it's possible this slips into the first week of December, but we'll try and keep it in November. Remember we have literally hundreds of Sun JDK developers involved with this transition, this is not a minor event.

The experimental repositories are still available at: http://hg.openjdk.java.net. And I encourage anyone considering working with these repositories to try them out.

I know I said it before, but we are in the final lap, just keep stopping along the way to clean up the track... the "official" repositories should be available around the end of November.

-kto

OpenJDK Mercurial Transition Update 6

Update 6

Build 23 has been promoted, so far there is at least one build bug found (see 6624808 or this openjdk build-dev email). But these sources will be used pretty much 'as is' to start the Mercurial repositories and Build 24, of which experimental repositories are available at: http://hg.openjdk.java.net right now. The control directory disappears and it's Makefile is made part of the enclosing repository. If you have the Mercurial forest extension in your Mercurial installation, you can simply:

hg fclone http://hg.openjdk.java.net/jdk7/MASTER

And have your own forest clone of the OpenJDK to play with.

Also see OpenJDK forest, OpenJDK Integration Wheel, and Working in a Mercurial World for more information.

We are in the final lap... "official" repositories are very close.

-kto

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