Switch jdk8u development to Git/Skara

[Vladimir Kempik]

Hello
If Skara’s «/backport» command can be updated to do patch unshuffling then it will be a huge thing to ease backporting.
Regards, Vladimir

> 15 сент. 2021 г., в 16:25, Volker Simonis <volker.simonis at gmail.com> написал(а):
> 
> Hi Erik,
> 
> thanks for not having forgotten about this issue :)
> 
> Taking into account that 8u will be supported for at least five more
> years until 2026 [1,2] and that all downports are meanwhile
> originating from Git repositories I'm still strongly in favour of this
> migration in general.
> 
> Regarding the technical migration details I think I'd slightly in
> favour of the big-bang. one-step variant but I'm happy to accept the
> decision of the current 8u maintainers, whatever that will be.
> 
> Best regards,
> Volker
> 
> [1] https://access.redhat.com/articles/1299013#OpenJDK_Update_Release
> [2] https://aws.amazon.com/de/about-aws/whats-new/2020/08/amazon-corretto-8-11-support-extended/
> 
> On Wed, Sep 15, 2021 at 2:28 PM <erik.joelsson at oracle.com> wrote:
>> 
>> 
>> On 2021-09-14 06:57, erik.joelsson at oracle.com wrote:
>>> [2] https://github.com/openjdk/jdk8u
>> 
>> This has now been updated with everything including tag jdk8u312-b05.
>> 
>> /Erik
>> 
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