Should back-ports cc the mailing lists for the area? (was Re: [7u8] Request for approval: 7113017: Use POSIX compliant include file headers in sun/awt/medialib/mlib_types.h)

[Edvard Wendelin]

Hi,

When I've been working on backports that I'm not the original author of, I have always asked the engineer if the fix is suitable to backport or not. Instead of having to CC the entire group I'd like to suggest the following alternative rule:

If you are not the original author, make sure both of you are in agreement that the fix is suitable for backport before requesting for approval on the mailing list. 

I think the most common use case by far is that the same engineer takes the fix to 8 and 7u and in that case we shouldn't add more processes. 

Cheers,
Edvard

On Aug 7, 2012, at 12:04 PM, Alan Bateman wrote:

> On 06/08/2012 03:00, David Holmes wrote:
>> 
>> I raised the issue of bake-time previously:
>> 
>> http://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/jdk7u-dev/2011-September/000307.html 
>> 
>> See in particular Edvard's response:
>> 
>> http://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/jdk7u-dev/2011-September/000315.html 
> I've no issue with any of Edvard's points, it's just a concern that the mailing list for the area should be included in any consideration to back-port a change to jdk7u. I suggest this because the folks in that area are probably the folks that will know about any side effects (potential or real) and gives them a chance to jump in if there are any concerns.
> 
> -Alan