[11u] Backport JEP 346 : Promptly Return Unused Committed Memory from G1

[Aleksey Shipilev]

On 11/7/20 5:08 PM, Ruslan Synytsky wrote:
> Hi All, will it be considered as a "green light" if no additional feedback / comments come during 14 
> days? Or is there a possibility to block the progress by ignoring a thread? Please help me to 
> understand how the backporting process works.

There are no implicit timeouts almost anywhere in OpenJDK projects (with notable exceptions of role 
voting, I think), and almost everywhere you need the affirmative action. Here is how the backporting 
process works: until formal maintainers say "yes" or "no", nothing is certain.

Andrew, having that Lead (maybe as in, "made from lead") Maintainer hat burden on his shoulders, 
asked me to follow up with risk assessment. I did the first round, and now I have to follow up on 
Liang's improvements for the second round. I am planning to get around to that soon.

Even the simple patches sometimes drag for many days / few weeks, until reviewers catch up. For the 
change like this, it is prudent to expect a very careful pace on top of that.

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Thanks,
-Aleksey