RFR: Things to consider before PR

[Stuart Marks]

On Fri, 21 Apr 2023 16:15:30 GMT, Jesper Wilhelmsson <jwilhelm at openjdk.org> wrote:

> Text about what kind of changes that may or may not be desired in OpenJDK. Based on @prrace's text on https://openjdk.org/groups/client-libs/

An item that would be good to add to the list of things to consider is maintainability. On more than one occasion I've seen people propose changes that added a lot of complexity for not much benefit. Or, the proposal was a "quick hack" that solved an immediate problem but that increased complexity or technical debt. Maybe this is the right tradeoff, or maybe it's not; it needs to be carefully considered. A helpful idea to keep in mind is that changes accepted into the JDK will need to be maintained by other people in perpetuity.

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PR Comment: https://git.openjdk.org/guide/pull/101#issuecomment-1520682483