RFR: Cleanups and fixes [v2]
Iris Clark
iris at openjdk.org
Wed Oct 1 19:23:25 UTC 2025
On Wed, 1 Oct 2025 15:09:08 GMT, Jesper Wilhelmsson <jwilhelm at openjdk.org> wrote:
>> src/guide/jbs-jdk-bug-system.md line 83:
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>>> 81: - Note that if it's reported against an update release then all we can say is that it's applicable to all the following update releases, not necessarily the next feature release as it may have been introduced in an update. Given this, it is always important to try and reproduce the issue in the corresponding feature release as well as mainline.
>>> 82:
>>> 83: 1) If an issue is applicable to release N, then it can't be assumed that it is applicable to older releases less than N. It may be, but in general this is less important to know, as the majority of issues are only fixed in the latest feature release. If the issue is a crash or important in another way, then it becomes worthwhile to take the time to determine if it's relevant to earlier maintained releases.
>>
>> Maybe say explicitly "earlier releases maintained by the jdk-updates project"?
>
> I deliberately made this slightly vague since the releases maintained by the jdk-updates project isn't necessarily the same releases as various companies supports or the releases tagged as LTSes. Different readers will have different opinions on what releases are "maintained".
I agree with the intentional vagueness. Also note that 8u is maintained by the JDK 8 Updates Project, not the JDK Updates Project.
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PR Review Comment: https://git.openjdk.org/guide/pull/159#discussion_r2395635085
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