[8u] [RFR] 8175120: Remove old tests on kdc timeout policy

Andrew John Hughes gnu.andrew at redhat.com
Thu Mar 14 00:10:30 UTC 2019


On 13/03/2019 08:08, Langer, Christoph wrote:
>>> Adding security-dev as reviews should happen on the corresponding area
>>> lists. Even for 8.
>>>
>>
>> I'm not sure about this. We've never done that for 7u under Red Hat
>> leadership and I wonder whether it potentially risks fixes being delayed
>> by Oracle reviewers that are no longer interesting in working on 8u, not
>> to mention creating additional noise on the other lists.
> 
> It was the practice for JDK 8 updates so far. For me, the main benefit of including other lists in update reviews is the notification of potential reviewers that would usually not read the update mailing lists.
> 
> /Christoph
> 

Yeah, I've done it when Oracle were still leading the project. I guess I
just kind of assumed the noise wouldn't be welcome on the main lists,
but you make a good point about a wider reviewership. I'll forward the
ones I've posted so far.

Thanks,
-- 
Andrew :)

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