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

[Ruslan Synytsky]

Aleksey, thank you for the process clarification. It helps to stay
passionate. No doubts that we should be careful. And no push, I wanted to
understand if coordination is necessary here. Looking forward to getting
your second round feedback.
Regards
Ruslan

On Sun, 8 Nov 2020 at 21:24, Aleksey Shipilev <shade at redhat.com> wrote:

> 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.
>
> --
> Thanks,
> -Aleksey
>
>