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

[Andrew Haley]

On 17/02/2021 21:46, Langer, Christoph wrote:
> collecting the responses in this mail thread so far, I hear that we're about to reach some kind of consensus with regards to a git switch of JDK11u. ��
> 
> If nobody objects, I will go ahead now and approach the Skara team to concretely discuss the envisioned switch for the 11.0.13 cycle.
> 
> I'll seek to get answers to some open questions:
> - How do Merge PRs work?
> - Will "git bundle" work for the CPU process?
> - What about "git backport" and the "/backport" command in github?
> - What's the status of "clean" backports?

That seems like a reasonable list. We need to be sure that OpenJDK
Jira and the mailing lists don't miss anything important. Right now
we have a log in Jira of the issue being raised, when it gets approved
for backport and by whom, and when it gets committed.

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Andrew Haley  (he/him)
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