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

[Doerr, Martin]

Hi,

I have done my first jdk16u backport according to [1] and it has worked pretty smoothly even without Skara CLI tools.
It will certainly be even simpler when using them.
So I appreciate establishing the same backport process for 11u. It would be great to have the same backport process for all update releases, especially when we need to backport the same fix to several update releases.

Thanks and best regards,
Martin

[1] https://wiki.openjdk.java.net/display/SKARA/Backports#Backports-BackportPullRequests


> -----Original Message-----
> From: jdk8u-dev <jdk8u-dev-retn at openjdk.java.net> On Behalf Of Langer,
> Christoph
> Sent: Montag, 22. Februar 2021 11:30
> To: Andrew Haley <aph at redhat.com>; jdk-updates-dev at openjdk.java.net
> Cc: jdk8u-dev at openjdk.java.net; Lindenmaier, Goetz
> <goetz.lindenmaier at sap.com>; Severin Gehwolf <sgehwolf at redhat.com>
> Subject: RE: [11u] Proposal: Switch jdk11u development to Git/Skara with
> 11.0.13 cycle
> 
> Hi,
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Andrew Haley <aph at redhat.com>
> > Sent: Montag, 22. Februar 2021 11:06
> > To: Langer, Christoph <christoph.langer at sap.com>; jdk-updates-
> > dev at openjdk.java.net
> > Cc: jdk8u-dev at openjdk.java.net; Lindenmaier, Goetz
> > <goetz.lindenmaier at sap.com>; Severin Gehwolf <sgehwolf at redhat.com>
> > Subject: Re: [11u] Proposal: Switch jdk11u development to Git/Skara with
> > 11.0.13 cycle
> >
> > 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.
> 
> Thanks for the feedback. The points you made here seem to be covered as
> far as my experiences with Skara backports go, e.g. in 16u. So the approval
> process will still be handled using the appropriate Jira labels and backport bug
> items will be created and/or updated by the Skara bots in a way that pretty
> much resembles what hgupdater has done before.
> 
> Cheers
> Christoph