Authors, Committers, and Reviewers for JDK10 and forward (original) (raw)

Mario Torre neugens.limasoftware at gmail.com
Wed Sep 27 16:05:12 UTC 2017

2017-09-27 11:22 GMT+02:00 dalibor topic <dalibor.topic at oracle.com>:

On 26.09.2017 17:43, Mario Torre wrote:

With the strict six month cadence I'm afraid this may not be the case anymore for the ones of us contributing a smaller amount of patches over the years (like I do, which is basically about fixing the occasion bugs in the graphics or font stack, which I think are still significant but happen at a much lower frequency than other contributions). Since the JDK Project would be a single Project for all future releases, contributions to that Project would be cumulative. So we would avoid the administrative role/user union set operations that we need to perform today, whenever a new JDK Release Project is created. So, if things work as before (as they should, in my opinion), then even occasional bug fixing could lead to more responsible roles over time. I think that's fine - after all, if you happen to write perfect code every now and then, you shouldn't have to worry about losing your gradually gained reviewer/committer privileges over time due to the consequent lack of bug fixing opportunities. ;)

That makes sense. I still need to wrap my head around how the process will work in practice, but at least I'm happy I won't have to look harder for bugs in the jdk, they are getting rarer by the day! ;)

Cheers, Mario

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