RFR: Section on project maintenance [v3]

[Iris Clark]

On Wed, 21 Sep 2022 20:08:59 GMT, Jesper Wilhelmsson <jwilhelm at openjdk.org> wrote:

>> src/guide/project-maintenance.md line 3:
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>>> 1: # Project Maintenance
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>>> 3: Many OpenJDK projects build on top of the JDK source code. When doing this there are a number of common workflows that are dealt with by most project maintainers. For instance updating the code (merging) to bring in the latest changes from the upstream JDK project.
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>>> Many OpenJDK projects build on top of the JDK source code
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>> Examples would make this more readable for someone less experienced.
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> I agree that a few examples could make it slightly easier to read but I also worry that these examples will rot going forward as the example projects are completed and forgotten. How important would you say this is?

Would it help to give examples of the types of Projects that are downstream consumers of the JDK source?  A common case would be forward thinking Projects that exist to think about evolution in a particular area rather than a particular, specific feature.  Amber, Loom, Panama, and Valhalla fall into this category.  All of them are long-running Projects that have been the source of multiple features over several releases.

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PR: https://git.openjdk.org/guide/pull/92