Java 7 for Fedora 16

[Deepak Bhole]

* Toshio Kuratomi <a.badger at gmail.com> [2011-07-25 15:18]:
> On Mon, Jul 25, 2011 at 11:30:23AM -0400, Deepak Bhole wrote:
> > * Toshio Kuratomi <a.badger at gmail.com> [2011-07-23 20:03]:
> > > The alpha change deadline is a week and three days away so this is very
> > > likely too late.  If you want to try to get an exception to get this in, you
> > > need to get the Java SIG excited to do it, get the Feature page finished
> > > (with estimates of how much time it will take to finish and who will do the
> > > work) and put it before FESCo/Feature Wrangler to see if they'll grant an
> > > exception.
> > > 
> > > Judging by the state things are in now, I don't know that it looks too
> > > hopeful unless you get some Java SIG people to commit to working on it.
> > > 
> > 
> > This is doable by the Alpha deadline. The main holdup for us has been a
> > lack of OpenJDK TCK for v7. The actual RPM can be written fairly
> > quickly. We were hopeful that we'd be able to push a more tested initial
> > version. But given the deadlines, it appears we will have to push
> > whatever we have right now and modify/fix it as needed when we have the
> > TCK.
> > 
> Note:  The *Feature deadline* is already passed.  That's why I use the word
> "exception" in what I wrote.
> 
> Robyn and I have talked about how the feature process could be adapted to
> allow for more late work to occur however none of that talk has turned into
> anything solid yet.  One point that bears on this is that the Feature Owners
> must be willing to commit to doing all the work involved in coordination
> when they submit something late.  In other words, if Java 7 update went in
> well before the feature deadline, the expectation would be that packagers
> whose packages depended on Java would need to adapt to Java 7.  The
> expectation now that the Feature Freeze has passed is that the people
> pushing Java 7 into the repos would also need to seek out and fix all the
> packages that depend on them that are broken.
>

Ah, thank you for the clarification. I wasn't aware of the above
distinction in exception cases.
 
> Hope that helps in creating a Feature plan that FESCo can grant an exception
> to in good conscience,
> 

Thanks,
Deepak

> -Toshio
> 
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