OpenJDK 8u and Backport Bugs

[Severin Gehwolf]

On Fri, 2020-12-11 at 15:41 +0000, Andrew Hughes wrote:
So, I'd like some feedback from others before making a decision here.
It doesn't seem a good idea to base the decision just on what works
best for us as maintainers.

Makes sense.

Note that it seems a departure from general updates releases
backporting process[1]. The more differences get introduced the harder
it is to remember what release follows which process.

"""
An OpenJDK JDK Updates Author, Committer or Reviewer requesting their
fix in a JDK Updates repo MUST label the corresponding master/parent
issue with jdk<release>u-fix-request (where <release> denotes the
feature release version, e.g. jdk10u-fix-request) in the JDK Bug
System.
"""

Note the master/parent issue phrasing.

Thanks,
Severin

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