OpenJDK (Java) migrating from Mercurial?

[František Kučera]

Dne 26. 07. 19 v 17:19 duvall at comfychair.org napsal(a):
> On Fri, Jul 26, 2019 at 03:03:12PM +0200, Arne Babenhauserheide wrote:
>
>> Marek Lukáš via Mercurial <mercurial at mercurial-scm.org> writes:
>> …
>> From this: https://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/discuss/2019-July/005096.html
>> …
>> It looks like most of the arguments for the move are not based in
>> delivering improvements with the minimal amount of breakage, but rather
>> in moving to git at any cost.
> It seems likely that's the case: some unrelated team at Oracle has made the
> decision that everything will be git, and now engineering teams (willing or not)
> have to implement that decision, regardless of external consumers.  With Oracle,
> if you're not a paying customer, you're not valued very much, if at all.  And
> I'm sure that Oracle (again, as a company, not the individual teams and people
> who interact with external communities) feels that they own OpenJDK as much as
> they own Java, and that the community participation in governance is simply an
> impediment to them doing whatever they feel they need to do.
>
> There was strong pressure when I was still there to move the Solaris repos to
> git.  In fact, the default stance (dictated by some small team way up in the
> CTO's office, I think) was git for any external participation.  You were
> expected to have a repo on github, though they relented and allowed us to
> set up a mirror of the internal mercurial repo (for our opensource bits).  At
> least one other repo gave up and converted.  I wouldn't be surprised if more
> did.
>
> Danek
BTW: there is a new discussion „New candidate JEP: 369: Migrate to
GitHub“ in the OpenJDK mailing list:
<https://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/discuss/2019-November/thread.html>

Some comments:

> I think we really need to get back to this proposal in an year or two
> when we understand more of the implication

<https://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/discuss/2019-November/005200.html>

> It worries me a little that an entire DVCS swap is being proposed
> without, apparently, any attempts to speed up Mercurial operations
> having being tried

<https://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/discuss/2019-November/005195.html>

Franta