RFR(7u): JDK-8012351: Bold fonts everywhere in GTK L&F on Ubuntu with JDK 7

[Phil Race]

Hi,

Whilst it is up to the maintainer of the 7u project to decide what to do,
I thought one thing we had established a long time ago is that it is good
practice to check with (and CC) the original author of a fix when
requesting a back port. Backports are generally initiated by said
author, not just anyone else who'd like it backported.
The original author may know something you don't ...
appropriateness .. a bug tail .. etc.

Also I think unless you are a committer to 7u then you first need
to find a committer who is willing to sponsor the change.
The fix isn't going to be pushed by the 7u maintainer - at least they
have no obligation to do so.

-phil.

On 11/06/2016 01:10 PM, Tiago Daitx wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Please review the backported changes for JDK-8012351 to 7u.
>
> JDK-8012351 <https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8012351>: Bold
> fonts everywhere in GTK L&F on Ubuntu with JDK 7
> JDK 9 changeset: http://hg.openjdk.java.net/jdk9/jdk9/jdk/rev/5ff0d5f1a97f
> JDK 8u changeset: http://hg.openjdk.java.net/jdk8u/jdk8u/jdk/rev/50c530973203
> JDK 8/9 Review Thread: apologies, I couldn't find any such review thread.
>
> Webrev/Patch: the 8u changeset applies cleanly with 2 small 1-line
> offsets in hunks #1 and #2 from SunFontManager.java.
>
> Note: I'm a Participant, not a Contributor but I assume the backport
> is trival enough to not require a signed OCA.
>
> Regards,
>