Giving up upstream-ing my patches & feel free to pick them up

[David Alayachew]

Sorry to hear this.

If it makes you feel better, I am born and raised in America, currently
live in Washington DC, and I still had to wait over 2 months for mine to be
done.

@Dalibor Topic <dalibor.topic at oracle.com>, can we get this prioritized?

On Sat, Jan 31, 2026, 4:52 AM xtex <xtex at envs.net> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> About one year ago, in Jan. 2025, I began my adventure of the OpenJDK
> codebase. Later I attempted to make some patches into the repository.
> I checked the documentation and learned that I have to sign an Oracle
> Contributor Agreement before submitting patches to OpenJDK. At that time,
> I
> dreamed that it was just a pretty normal CLA, like the ones I signed for
> other
> projects and shall just take at most several days.
>
> A few days later, I received an email asking me to update some information
> in
> the agreement. I did. After that, I have sent 5 emails to
> opensource_ww_grp at oracle.com asking if there was anything wrong (once a
> month
> from January to May). For each of my emails, I got a reply, saying that
> they
> "sincerely apologize" and "@Dalibor Topic Can you please review...", with
> no
> actual progress being made. Now it has been (more than) one year since I
> submitted my first OCA submission. And I have been tired of "/touch"-ing
> my PR
> once a month.
>
> I wonder if there is a reason for not reviewing my OCA submission. I do
> live
> in Chinese Mainland but I have no contractual or subordinate or teacher-
> student relationship with any entities that are restricted by the US
> import/
> export control laws (according to OpenSanctions). If you think that I have
> such a relationship or should be rejected for any other reasons, please
> simply
> reject my OCA submission, instead of hanging it for months.
>
> As I no longer have enough interest and spare time to work on OpenJDK, I
> decided to give up upstreaming those patches.
> If anyone is interested in them, please feel free to pick up and submit
> these
> patches, most of which are small but I believe they are useful.
> As OCA requires that "each contribution that you submit is and shall be an
> original work of authorship", you may rewrite my patches from scratch so
> it is
> an original work, and you don't need to sign my name or ping me.
>
> I would like to give a list of the patches that I wanted to upstream but
> failed:
>
> - Checks if "llvm-config" is broken:
> https://github.com/AOSC-Tracking/jdk/commit/
> 6a8b12b1ad700d994a2803de593ca06e698ef1a9
> - Extend default thread stack size for zero:
> This addresses the stack overflow exception in javac when building JDK 24
> with
> zero variants.
> https://github.com/AOSC-Tracking/jdk/commit/
> 4534fcaafc149f649105dc9914c7cf4aaf8c802c
> https://www.mail-archive.com/build-dev@openjdk.org/msg14818.html
>
> Some patches that are not for the upstream OpenJDK but Loongson's fork of
> JDK
> and were also blocked by OCA:
> https://github.com/loongson/jdk/pull/134
> https://github.com/loongson/jdk/pull/126
> https://github.com/loongson/jdk/pull/125
> https://github.com/loongson/jdk/pull/135
> https://github.com/loongson/jdk/pull/136
> https://github.com/AOSC-Tracking/jdk/commit/
> 913dcb2b2759437876ae3a40a1b074eeb1bfe09f
> https://github.com/AOSC-Tracking/jdk/commit/
> caba8e6de73fd9ffa078d6c257d6be8500b9d16a
>
> Best wishes,
> Bye.
> --
> Bingwu Zhang (a.k.a. xtex) @ Sat, 31 Jan 2026 08:42:31 +0000
>
>
>
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