Proposal for back-porting JFR to OpenJDK8u

[Martijn Verburg]

Folks are welcome to build this on the Adopt build farm if they want to see
what breaks on certain platforms.  We’ve just added another 50 hosts of
capacity.

On Thu, 31 Jan 2019 at 19:53, Andrew Hughes <gnu.andrew at redhat.com> wrote:

> On Thu, 31 Jan 2019 at 00:45, Hohensee, Paul <hohensee at amazon.com> wrote:
> >
> > The backport is on the EnableJFR switch is true, but it's default false
> in the patch, so JFR is default off.
> >
> > Paul
> >
>
> That's at runtime, right? I'm thinking more about the possibility of
> it breaking the build
> on some architectures.
>
> We're still in a state of flux with jdk8u right now, until a new lead
> is assigned, but I'm
> thinking it makes sense to keep both the jdk8u and jdk8u-dev
> repositories, and do
> releases from the former after they've baked in the latter. With
> something like this,
> it may even be worth getting a further tree where it can be tested and
> worked on,
> without the pressure of the three month update cycle.
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