This (and other) bug updates are incorrect.

[Aleksey Shipilev]

On 4/25/19 9:02 PM, Daniel D. Daugherty wrote:
> You misunderstand me. If the OpenJDK8u project wants a blanket designator,
> then that project is welcome to create one. I do not recommend doing that.
> A bug filed with a blanket version designator is initially useless to the
> evaluator because the first thing you have to do is figure out the real
> version where the issue was sighted. However, that's my opinion. I'm not
> working on the OpenJDK8u project.

You misunderstand me as well, I think.

What I am saying that projects need blanket designators. If there are none, people would
invent/reuse the closest one, like the blank major revision. This will happen soon with somebody
else, because the confusion is real; any many do this around JBS as well. More examples below.


> Just to be clear: Please do not use '8' as a blanket version
> designator value. That release value belongs to the OpenJDK8
> project and _does not_ belong to the OpenJDK8u project.

I wasn't aware there is such thing as "JIRA version belongs to a project".


> And as Phil requested, please fix the bugs that you recently
> touched to no longer use '8'.

Right, I dropped "8" from the issues that have the obvious affected-version. I would keep "8" for
issues that are supposed to be reproduced with 8 GA.

But, I have trouble fixing these oddly versioned ones:

== "Update GIFlib library to the 5.1.8":
  https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8220495

Which "Affects Version" should it take? If we look back to issue history, there is a previous update
happened here:
  https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8155691

Should it be 8u161 then?

== "Xalan Update: Xalan Java 2.7.2":
  https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8193830

The issue already has 8u backports, but affects-version did not have any "8*" version. Which version
to put there? The bug does not even link any related issues to see when was the latest update. I put
"8" there this morning, which version should I put instead? I think this is one of those cases where
"8" fits: it is not a bug, and 8 GA does not have new Xalan.

== "Upgrade IANA LSR data"
  https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8213294

So it has backport to 8u221, which version to use then? 8u201? Or, using the logic from Xalan issue
above, it is also proper "8"?

== "[Windows] Exception if no printers are installed."
  https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8212202

It had backports to 8u212 and 8u231. It seems to be caused by JDK-8153732, which was backported to
8u212 and 8u231, which versions to use then? 8u212?



-Aleksey