Question on backporting JDK-8169739

Wed Feb 28 10:52:43 UTC 2024

On Wed, 2024-02-28 at 14:49 +0800, johnsjiang(江莎) wrote:
> Hi,
> I want to backport JDK-8169739 [1] to OpenJDK 8u

May I ask why? Is this a critical backport? OpenJDK 8u is in long term
maintenance mode. I'd suggest to upgrade the JDK if your users need the
fix.

> but find the associated
> commit [2] contains the changes for multiple issues, including JDK-8143577,
> JDK-8169679, JDK-8167202, JDK-8164793, JDK-8169739 and JDK-8169738.
> 
> Do I have to backport all the issues in a batch?
> Any suggestion?

That seems a large too risky change to backport as-is from JDK 9. If
you can find a minimal version of it that fixes the problem, get
sufficient review(s) from domain experts, perform some extensive
testing, we might be able to discuss again.

Thanks,
Severin

> [1] https://bugs.openjdk.org/browse/JDK-8169739
> [2] https://github.com/openjdk/jdk/commit/3d0d86185e189b84e4ee2802314e1596ad66a779