Bake time in JDK8 before 7u ?

[Dr Andrew John Hughes]

On 18:58 Sat 03 Sep     , David Holmes wrote:
> Most fixes to 7u must go to 8 first. I assume at least part of the reason 
> for this is to have fixes "bake" in 8 before coming down into 7u. But I'm 
> seeing a lot of pushes to 8 followed (sometimes within minutes) by requests 
> to push to 7u. I know there are various schedules to adhere to but it seems 
> to me that the requirement to push to 8 before 7u is not serving any purpose 
> in these cases.
> 
> David
> 

I agree.  With 7-->6, we used to only backport if the change had been in a number
of build drops.  However, there don't seem to be OpenJDK8 build drops yet; or have
I missed something?
-- 
Andrew :)

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