RFR: Added section on maintainer-pain [v2]

Jesper Wilhelmsson jwilhelm at openjdk.java.net
Thu Nov 5 19:14:13 UTC 2020


On Thu, 5 Nov 2020 18:57:43 GMT, Igor Ignatyev <iignatyev at openjdk.org> wrote:

>> Jesper Wilhelmsson has updated the pull request incrementally with one additional commit since the last revision:
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>>   Refer to ProblemList section
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> src/index.md line 986:
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>> 984: If you have a [`maintainer-pain`](#maintainer-pain) bug assigned to you please consider fixing it asap. If you chose not to work on the issue, you should at least be aware that you are choosing to waste others' engineering time and people will be affected by this choice.
>> 985: 
>> 986: As with any issue the best way to deal with a [`maintainer-pain`](#maintainer-pain) issue is to fix it. Another way to reduce the noise is to ProblemList the failing test. This is a viable option if there is a limited set of tests that are failing and the bug is actively investigated. ProblemListing a test is a regression in our test coverage so this should not be taken lightly, but it works well as a quick emergency action when a test is failing repeatedly.
> 
> should we refer to `ProblemListing` section here?

Yes, that is a good idea!

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PR: https://git.openjdk.java.net/guide/pull/37


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