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

[Andrew Hughes]

On 13:46 Thu 11 Feb     , Andrew Haley wrote:
> [Add: jdk8u-dev]
> 
> On 10/02/2021 16:39, Langer, Christoph wrote:
> > This is why we think the project should move to git:
> 
> I have no objection to this, but it's important to reach consensus,
> which ISO defines as
> 
>   General agreement, characterized by the absence of sustained opposition
>   to substantial issues by any important part of the concerned interests
>   and by a process that involves seeking to take into account the views
>   of all parties concerned and to reconcile any conflicting arguments
>   Consensus need not imply unanimity.
> 
> 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.
> 
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> Red Hat UK Ltd. <https://www.redhat.com>
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I have still not seen any answer to my question of how a bulk update is
pushed for the CPU.

My own attempts to backport to jdk13u suggest the tooling still needs
work on this, or at least better documentation. [0]

OpenJDK 16, the first release to use git during development, has not
even been released yet. Why the rush?

I don't see any reason at all to start altering 8u at such a late
stage in its development.  All risk and no gain.

[0] https://github.com/openjdk/jdk/pull/2153#issuecomment-766960241
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