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

Andrew Haley aph at redhat.com
Fri Feb 12 18:52:06 UTC 2021


On 12/02/2021 07:15, Andrew Hughes wrote:
> 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

We've always been a bit short of boots on the ground, and being
stuck on an obsolete VCS will only isolate 8u even more. Maybe this
is an optimist-versus-pessimist thing, but 8u may be about halfway
through its lifetime! <ducks>

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