RFR: Section on project maintenance [v3]

[Ludvig Janiuk]

On Wed, 21 Sep 2022 21:09:19 GMT, Iris Clark <iris at openjdk.org> wrote:

>> 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?
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> 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.

Yes, I think those are good examples. Something like:

> Many OpenJDK projects build on top of the JDK source code. At the time of writing, some examples are Project Valhalla(link), which tries to create a JVM with "value types", and Project Panama(link), which is improving native JVM interoperation. There are a number of workflows that projects like this have to deal with. For instance, updating the project codebase (merging) to bring in the latest changes from the upstream JDK project.

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