On Jul 31, 2014, at 5:11, Michael Osipov <1983-01...@gmx.net> wrote: > > > Am 2014-07-30 um 15:42 schrieb Wang Weijun: > >> > >> On Jul 29, 2014, at 1:01, Michael Osipov <1983-01...@gmx.net> wrote: > >> > >>> Moreover, I have access to My Oracle Support if necessary. > >> > >> I'll fix this bug in jdk9 first and backport it to jdk8u myself. > >> However, jdk7u is owned by another engineering group. Since you > >> already have My Oracle Support (honestly I don't know what that is), > >> you can talk to your contact to push this to jdk7u. > > > > OK, aren't you able to propose to a backport on the mailing list? > > If I understand correctly, back porting to older releases (i.e. <= 7) needs a > business justification. Since it's not myself working on it, it's always > better to make it look important so that the sustaining manager can assign > someone to do it. I can give my opinion too.
Maybe it won't be even necessary to stay put on Java 7 forever if this gets backported to Java 8. My company is discontinuing every Java release 6 month after Oracle has discontinued it. > > > > I can raise an issue but as far as I know My Oracle Support (though my > > company is paying big money for that), this will be classified as a wish > > and hell knows when this will be implemented. > > > > Anyway, I won't be able to raise until that bug in fixed in JIRA and > > committed to master. > > I am writing regression tests and will request for code review for jdk9 soon. Thanks, I will have an eye on the mailing list for that. Michael
