Backporting features [was Re: RFR (11u, XXL): Upstream/backport Shenandoah to JDK11u]

[Claes Redestad]

On 2020-02-17 16:53, Volker Simonis wrote:
> 
>     Perhaps a bitter pill to swallow, but I think the players involved need
>     to take the steps necessary to upgrade to 11+ and stop demanding
>     backports that risk destabilizing 8u
> 
> 
> This is a little bit like asking Oracle to take back the extension to 
> JDK8U support it has just announced and move its customers to 11+ ;-)

While I surely have both conscious and unconscious biases that I can't
fully escape, I'm here as an OpenJDK maintainer arguing in favor of
stability of past releases. I'd like to think I'd be as opposed to
large, risky feature backports regardless of where I was employed.

/Claes