11.0.3-oracle issues in openjdk 11.0.3

[Langer, Christoph]

> I find JIRA query language confusing at times. Some of us at Red Hat have
> scripted the JIRA clients
> to produce reports for backports. Our latest attempt uses JIRA REST client:
>   https://github.com/shipilev/jdk-backports-monitor/
> 
> ...and it produces reports like these:
>   https://builds.shipilev.net/backports-monitor/redhat-openjdk.txt

Looks nice.

> > I would volunteer for doing the work to go through the list and do the
> downporting. I would first
> > check if the upstream patches apply, then request the downport approval
> and do the pushes. If the
> > changes don’t apply cleanly I would ask for help by the original
> authors/reviewers of the patches
> > or ask for help in the mailing lists. Please let me know if I should do this or
> not.
> 
> I'll join you. Have already put some "redhat-openjdk" tags on issues that
> should be uncontroversial,
> and am proceeding to request backports for them.

Sounds good.

> > If I don’t hear objections until Monday (02/18) EOB, I’d take it as approval
> and would start the
> > works.
> Not sure who's approval you are seeking here :) I think objections and
> maintainer approvals are per
> backport anyway.

Yep, as per the update rules, approvals are per backport and nobody can keep me from asking for it. However, I'd try to figure out whether such an overall effort would be appreciated in general or people would say I rather shouldn't do that for whatever reason...

/Christoph