[gnu.andrew at redhat.com: Re: OpenJDK 8u and Backport Bugs]

[Langer, Christoph]

Hi,

> On 12/17/20 5:39 PM, Lindenmaier, Goetz wrote:
> > While I am currently fine with the process, I see some of the points
> > that were made here.
> >
> > But the whole downport process will feel a lot different and change
> > slightly with the move to github.  We really should only change the
> > process once we are all familiar with the new workflows.
> > One thing that improves is that the downport issues opened
> > automatically will contain as assignee the person that did the
> > downport.
> >
> > Thus I would rather vote for driving the change to github, than
> > discussing changes that might be pointless after the move.
> 
> This is a good point. We're on the threshold of moving to github,
> and the new workflow addresses some of the issues that we're
> wrestling with here. It'll take some time for most of the non-
> core backporters to come to terms with any workflow change, so it
> makes little sense to create a new way of working that'll be gone
> almost as soon as it is implemented.
> 
> We should do the JDK 11u move to github first. Let's meet in the
> new year after the CPU is out.

+1

Let's discuss this for 11u after the Jan CPU is out. In my opinion we should look at switching over to Skara after the April CPU is out of the door - unless we identify important showstoppers.

Best regards
Christoph