CSR process for OpenJDK 11 and 8 Updates

[Andrew Haley]

On 8/20/19 9:21 PM, Martin Balao wrote:

> In my personal view, a new CSR process for each backport where the
> original enhancement/bug has a CSR will add unnecessary overhead.
> Particularly when there are no release-specific modifications. I.e.:
> backporting a change that introduces exactly the same system
> property to a previous release. The maintainer has control over what
> goes in, and can take the existing CSR documentation as an input to
> make a decision on the approval request.

Sure.

> I suggest that we only start a new CSR process when there are
> release-specific changes introduced. That can be informed as part of
> the "Fix Request" comment.

It depends on what the change does. It is not particularly unlikely
that a change which was appropriate for head might break jdk 11. In
that case a CSR is necessary. The CSR process is for us to use, not a
nuisance.

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