Proposal for back-porting JFR to OpenJDK8u

[Andrew Hughes]

On Fri, 7 Dec 2018 at 19:16, Daniel D. Daugherty
<daniel.daugherty at oracle.com> wrote:
>
> On 12/7/18 2:05 PM, Andrew Haley wrote:
> > On 12/7/18 6:57 PM, Daniel D. Daugherty wrote:
> >> I would think you could list the original bug for the JFR open
> >> port and all the bug fixes that you knowingly bring along in
> >> the same changeset. One changeset, multiple bugs listed.
> > Mmm, but there's going o be some work involved, and do you really want
> > someone to have to back-port the original buggy patch, commit it with
> > the exact same bugs, then backport each bug fix? Sure, it's fund for
> > people with nothing better to do.
> >
>
>  > commit it with
>  > the exact same bugs, then backport each bug fix?
>
> I'm not sure how you got that out of what I said.
>
> I'm saying:
>
> - pick a point in jdk/jdk for your backport to begin,
>    e.g., jdk-12+24 snapshot
> - grab the relevant files (hopefully there won't be
>    much overlap with non JFR changes)
> - do the backport to OpenJDK8u
> - find the original changeset for the JFR port to give
>    you the first bug ID
> - find subsequent JFR bug fix changesets to give the
>    next bug IDs
> - list all the bug IDs in your single changeset for the
>    JFR backport to OpenJDK8u.
>
> One changeset that lists multiple bug IDs. Not individual
> backports of each bug fix. Will you miss something in the
> list? Maybe or maybe not.
>
> Dan

That sounds sensible to me. It's similar to what I did with one
of the big security backports. As long as 'hg log -k' works, so
I can see the bug IDs are fixed in 8, I'm happy.
-- 
Andrew :)

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