Backport request for JDK-8034773

Jaikiran Pai jai.forums2013 at gmail.com
Mon Oct 28 10:57:37 UTC 2019


Thank you for those details, Christoph.

I'll start preparing the patch. Which of the following 2 repos is the
correct one to patch and propose a RFR against:

https://hg.openjdk.java.net/jdk8u/jdk8u/

https://hg.openjdk.java.net/jdk8u/jdk8u-dev/

-Jaikiran

On 28/10/19 4:16 PM, Langer, Christoph wrote:
> Hi Jaikiran,
>
> this fix is definitely a good candidate for a backport to jdk8u.
>
> What you should do now is to extract the patch and apply it to 8u. It'll probably need some reshuffling and further adaptations. Once you have it, please post an RFR webrev on this mailing list and add the jdk8u-fix-request label to the bug with a comment, referring to the mailing list's review thread.
>
> Cheers
> Christoph
>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: jdk8u-dev <jdk8u-dev-bounces at openjdk.java.net> On Behalf Of
>> Jaikiran Pai
>> Sent: Montag, 28. Oktober 2019 07:09
>> To: jdk8u-dev at openjdk.java.net
>> Subject: Backport request for JDK-8034773
>>
>> One of the projects I watch, has run into an issue[1] which has been
>> fixed in Java 9+. The fix for Java 9+ went in as part of this issue[2].
>> The related commit for it is [3] and includes more than one bug fix. The
>> commit itself is relatively small and has a testcase included.
>>
>> I am new to the backport request process. What would be the best way
>> forward to have this change backported to OpenJDK 8? Should I be raising
>> a backport request in the JBS (I've "author" role, so can do that if
>> that's necessary)?
>>
>> Right now, the issue has been worked around[4] in the project where we
>> hit it. But I would like to avoid more such changes all over the place,
>> by having this fixed in OpenJDK itself.
>>
>> [1] https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8233015
>>
>> [2] https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8034773
>>
>> [3] http://hg.openjdk.java.net/jdk9/jdk9/jdk/rev/6f00367ab8e1
>>
>> [4] https://github.com/quarkusio/quarkus/pull/4865
>>
>> -Jaikiran
>>
>>


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