jdk8u-fix-request's label processing?

[Andrew John Hughes]

On 20/08/2019 10:55, Aleksey Shipilev wrote:
> On 8/20/19 11:19 AM, Andrew Leonard wrote:
>> i'm following the backport contribution process as a non-committer, 
>> https://wiki.openjdk.java.net/display/JDKUpdates/How+to+contribute+a+fix
>> and i've labelled my bug jdk8u-fix-request, but no label update to add 
>> yes/no... has occurred yet. Is there a periodic review or notification by 
>> whoever processes these? or do I need to tell someone?
> 
> You don't need to tell. Maintainers are periodically scanning the pending approvals queue. It might
> take a while, especially when maintainers (for 8u it is Andrew Hughes) are all busy at the moment.
> 

I'm working through them now.

It's worth reminding people of:

https://openjdk.java.net/projects/jdk-updates/approval.html

specifically, rule 1 which states that fix requests should have a
comment describing the motivation for the request and pointing to the
review thread.
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