redhat-openjdk labels in JIRA

[Gil Tene]

Why use “redhat” in a tag name used for overall coordination outside of RedHat personnel? Can we come up with a non-vendor-specific tag that would mean “issue of interest to the project”, or “issues of interest for backporting”?

E.g. backport-openjdk seems much more appropriate than redhat-openjdk. Or backport-8u and backport-11u (and backport-7u) if we want to specifically identify them per target updates project or version.

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> On Apr 25, 2019, at 3:18 AM, Aleksey Shipilev <shade at redhat.com> wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> We use our "redhat-openjdk" tag to get issues tracked in our backporting tracking. We used to have
> it to coordinate work with others, "claiming" the issues for our team to work on. Starting today, we
> mark _all_ issues of our interest, and it does not necessarily mean we (Red Hat people) are doing
> the backporting work for it -- so if you see that tag on the issue, you are free to grab it for
> backports anyway!
> 
> As we discussed earlier, you might consider putting down the JBS comment that you are doing
> backports for a given issue, and then replace that comment with the actual Fix Request. Please only
> grab the issue if you are actually doing the work, not just planning to do it. This apparently
> scales better and works for non-Red Hat people too :)
> 
> -- 
> Thanks,
> -Aleksey
>