RFR: Addition of a causes link type [v7]

[Magnus Ihse Bursie]

On Wed, 22 Jan 2025 13:06:23 GMT, Alexey Ivanov <aivanov at openjdk.org> wrote:

> When backporting, B and C can be skipped, therefore a ‘causes’ link from A to D makes sense to me.

But that only makes sense once D is created. When creating B, the author genuinely believes that it fixes A. It is just that later on, B was found to be broken. Should we at that point go and remove the `causes` link for A?

I'm not saying I have the right answer here, but I definitely think that whatever we come up with should be documented in the guide, since this is indeed a tricky scenario.

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PR Comment: https://git.openjdk.org/guide/pull/139#issuecomment-2607426133