JDK-8188144 regression in method reference type-checking

[John Napier]

Thanks very much for the follow up, Maurizio.

I’m sad to hear that, as this bug bit me fairly severely, but c'est la vie. I’m glad at least it will be fixed in 10.

For my own edification, how early could I have reported it do you think for it to have made it in to the 9 patch release? I knew about it for a few weeks before I got up the energy to try to shrink the problem down to the least amount of essential code and put together a proper test case. I ask because there are other bugs I’d like to report that are of the same ilk, and I’m curious to know what kind of time line I should be observing (relative to the release schedule) to maximize my chance of getting them fixed in the next release.

Did it miss the patch because of severity, or because it missed some 6 month cut off, or some combination of the two?

Thanks again, cheers!

> On Jan 15, 2018, at 3:02 AM, Maurizio Cimadamore <maurizio.cimadamore at oracle.com> wrote:
> 
> Hi John,
> unfortunately the only planned update to JDK 9 is shipping very soon, and it's too late now to integrate fix on it. So, the next planned release with the fix is gonna be JDK 10 (unless a new maintainer for JDK 9 is going to step forward) - see:
> 
> http://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/jdk-updates-dev/2017-November/000024.html
> 
> Also, a related (and recent) thread (thanks to Sean Coffey to point that out):
> 
> http://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/jdk-updates-dev/2018-January/000028.html
> 
> Thanks
> Maurizio
> 
> 
> 
> 
> On 14/01/18 21:38, John Napier wrote:
>> Hello Maurizio,
>> 
>> I was the original reporter of JDK-8188144 to the JetBrains folks, who ultimately forwarded it over to you all, where it seems you’ve fixed it (Thank you!).  It’s logged as a P3 that is targeting 10 but was resolved in build b26; wasn’t that one of the old Java9 early access builds? Is this bug fix planned for the next patch release of 9, or is it only targeted for 10?
>> 
>> Cheers,
>> John
> 

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