[11u] Proposal: Switch jdk11u development to Git/Skara with 11.0.13 cycle

[Andrew Haley]

On 11/02/2021 16:46, Andrew Dinn wrote:
> On 11/02/2021 13:46, Andrew Haley wrote:
> 
>> It's also important not to consider 11 in isolation: while we do not
>> need to move 8 and 11 simultaneously, I very much do not want to see
>> them use different workflows for a long period.
> I'm also ok with switching jdk11u.
> 
> I'm not sure jdk8u will be quite so easy to switch as it is made up of 
> multiple hg repos. We can just clone these hg repos into their own 
> separate github repos. However, I'm not sure if the Skara tooling will 
> 'just work' when we try to relate multiple change sets committed to 
> these independent repos to common JIRAs.

We can take input from the Skara folk about that. As I understand
it, there are already people who have built a monorepo from JDK 8.

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