[11u] Proposal: Switch jdk11u development to Git/Skara with 11.0.13 cycle

[Andrew Haley]

On 10/02/2021 18:08, gouessej at orange.fr wrote:

> Sorry, maybe it's a bit late or silly but will it still be possible
> to get the source code of OpenJDK >= 11.0.13 and to contribute
> without using Github? Git != Github. I have nothing against Git, I
> understand the advantages of the transition but Github is owned by
> Microsoft,

I imagine that people will mirror OpenJDK @ Github.

> I hope that the mercurial repositories will be kept on the long term

I don't think that will happen.

> and I hope that a Github account won't become mandatory to
> contribute. I'm worried about the important concentration of open
> source projects in a single platform controlled by a single company
> (and as charity begins at home, I have no Github account).

I understand, but the Github workflow is so much better than we had
with Mercurial that it's unlikely anyone will want to return or to
maintain it. Apart from anything else, we're using Github services for
patch review, which work very well. Mercurial simply couldn't scale to
meet our needs.

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