CSRs and OpenJDK (11.0.3) Updates

[David Holmes]

Hi Christoph,

Wearing my CSR Group members hat ...

On 19/02/2019 5:31 pm, Langer, Christoph wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I have a question regarding the downport of fixes when a CSR is involved.
> 
> Look at issue JDK-8213952 [0]. It has a CSR: JDK-8214270 [1]. When Oracle backported it to 11.0.3-oracle, there is issue JDK-8215883 [2] for the backport and the CSR has been downported separately: JDK-8215884. Aleksey has brought the fix to OpenJDK 11.0.3 yesterday with JDK-8219240. But no CSR downport happened for that.
> 
> I guess in principle I'm fine if we skip CSR downports as I think only Oracle is involved in the CSR group so far. Maybe we should link the original CSR to the downports. Otherwise, we'd also have to have a CSR group or subgroup reviewing backport CSRs for OpenJDK community downports. Any thoughts on this? We should at least come up with a current rule how to handle such issues. Until then I'll leave those bugs alone that involve a CSRs in my backporting efforts.

First, the CSR Group doesn't consist only of Oracle people - Doug Lea is 
also a member.

Second, it's unusual to "backport" a CSR request, but may be needed if 
the backported fix has different compatibility concerns on the backport 
version than the main version. IMHO the backport of the CSR for 
11.0.3-oracle applies exactly the same to 11.0.3 as it does to 
11.0.3-oracle and I would think it a waste of everyone's time to create 
a third backport for 11.0.3. But that is for the 11u maintainers to decide.

Cheers,
David

> Thanks & Best regards
> Christoph
> 
> 
> [0] https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8213952
> [1] https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8214270
> [2] https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8215883
> [3] https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8215884
> [4] https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8219240
>