Review request for OPENJDK6-35: backport of JDK-6650759 to openjdk6

[Mario Torre]

On Wed, 2014-06-25 at 16:07 +0000, Ivan Krylov wrote:
> but, as you say, that doesn't give credit for the backporting work. On the other hand, if I'd
> gone to the other extreme, over 90% of the OpenJDK 6 changesets would be credited to me which
> would look very odd!
> 
> 
> In the dev cycle part of the development job is do all proper testing and verification and this is done by the same developer that writes code.
> For backports - the verification is being done by the person who does the backport and this is often a different person than the author in the upstream, right?
> Within Oracle folks have an advantage of running almost every backport by the original author as part of review - helps a lot to gain understanding and see the pitfalls.
> Unfortunately we don’t have such an opportunity, therefore we rely on all available tests and workloads to be the arbiters whether a given fix is valid or not.
> 
> You and the entire IcedTea team do get a huge credit for keeping openjdk6 vibrant, secure and robust and the community appreciates that!

Yeah, I agree one should not underestimate such work.

I guess the solution to the original question maybe on adding an extra
field for backport work where the original author is mentioned?

As you say, for versions directly maintained by Oracle this is usually
not a big problem, since the same person is usually the one that does
also the backport, but for the other Community maintained versions it's
more common to have such situation, it would make sense to state it
explicitly.

Cheers,
Mario