RFR: Section on backporting [v7]

Thu Dec 2 23:29:30 UTC 2021

On Thu, 2 Dec 2021 23:22:34 GMT, Jesper Wilhelmsson <jwilhelm at openjdk.org> wrote:

>> The redo will use a different main bug IDs, so I don't see that this adds confusion. Your earlier point is probably enough of a reason to do what you suggest.

> I would expect the redo issue in this case to be a new backport issue from the same main issue

That violates our best practices of not reusing a bug. This would lead to two commits in the repo with the same bug ID and different content. There's a reason we don't ever do this in the mainline.

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PR: https://git.openjdk.java.net/guide/pull/66