RFD: Draft guidelines for working on jdk8u

[Andrew Haley]

On 2/11/19 3:53 PM, Gustavo Romero wrote:
> As we've briefly discussed, we planned to backport some PPC64-only
> enhancements, like for AES BE, SHA2, and CRC32 intrinsics to jdk8u.
> 
> Thus I would like to know if we can have a different policy for
> such a kind of changes confined to a single port and hence add a
> text about it in the draft guidelines for working on jdk8u.

That seems reasonable to me. My intention is to minimize risk, not to
minimize performance.

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Andrew Haley
Java Platform Lead Engineer
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