Should back-ports cc the mailing lists for the area? (was Re: [7u8] Request for approval: 7113017: Use POSIX compliant include file headers in sun/awt/medialib/mlib_types.h) (original) (raw)

Andrew Hughes ahughes at redhat.com
Mon Aug 6 04:47:16 PDT 2012

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Hi Alan,

On 4/08/2012 1:36 AM, Alan Bateman wrote: > Phil's comment about the back-port only being discussed on > jdk7u-dev is > probably worth further discussion. > > One thing about jdk7u is that the barrier to get changes in is very > low. > On one hand this is is wonderful as it means we can get fixes into > jdk7u > in a timely manner and also keep the code mostly in sync with jdk8. > On > the other hand it allows changes to go into jdk7u before they have > been > tested or had any real usage in jdk8. I can point to several fixes > in > jdk8 that had side effects that only came to light after a few > weeks. > One would hope that if something creeps into jdk7u that it would be > found in a timely manner, it's just that sometimes (not always) it > is > better to wait a bit before rushing a change into jdk7u. I raised the issue of bake-time previously: http://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/jdk7u-dev/2011-September/000307.html See in particular Edvard's response: http://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/jdk7u-dev/2011-September/000315.html

Ah, ok. This suggests things are working as they should, as the issue was caught and the backport reverted in the stabilisation stage :-)

David -----

> > I think Phil's suggestion is that back-port requests should cc the > mailing list for the area. That would at least allow the original > author > and reviewers a chance to jump in if they wish. I think this > suggestion > make sense as it improves the chances of the "domain experts" > seeing it. > > -Alan. > > >

-- Andrew :)

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