Hi, When I've been working on backports that I'm not the original author of, I have always asked the engineer if the fix is suitable to backport or not. Instead of having to CC the entire group I'd like to suggest the following alternative rule:
If you are not the original author, make sure both of you are in agreement that the fix is suitable for backport before requesting for approval on the mailing list. I think the most common use case by far is that the same engineer takes the fix to 8 and 7u and in that case we shouldn't add more processes. Cheers, Edvard On Aug 7, 2012, at 12:04 PM, Alan Bateman wrote: > On 06/08/2012 03:00, David Holmes wrote: >> >> I raised the issue of bake-time previously: >> >> http://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/jdk7u-dev/2011-September/000307.html >> >> See in particular Edvard's response: >> >> http://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/jdk7u-dev/2011-September/000315.html > I've no issue with any of Edvard's points, it's just a concern that the > mailing list for the area should be included in any consideration to > back-port a change to jdk7u. I suggest this because the folks in that area > are probably the folks that will know about any side effects (potential or > real) and gives them a chance to jump in if there are any concerns. > > -Alan
