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

[Volker Simonis]

On Mon, Feb 17, 2020 at 5:08 PM Claes Redestad
<claes.redestad at oracle.com> wrote:
>
> 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.
>

Sorry, no offense at all. This was just a joke :)

I don't wanted to challenge your authority as OpenJDK maintainer. It's
just funny how all reasonable developers (including me) are asking for
migration to 11+ but in the end client requests and business decisions
for 8u always win in the end :)

> /Claes