"Giving up upstream-ing my patches & feel free to pick them up"
by csmantle on 1/31/2026, 10:53:38 AM
https://mail.openjdk.org/pipermail/hotspot-dev/2026-January/118080.html
Comments
by: rendaw
Regardless of the contents,<p>> For each of my emails, I got a reply, saying that they "sincerely apologize" and "@Dalibor Topic Can you please review...", with no actual progress being made.<p>then<p>> Sorry to hear this. .... @Dalibor Topic <dalibor.topic at oracle.com>, can we get this prioritized?<p>This is pretty morbidly funny.
1/31/2026, 4:27:52 PM
by: freedomben
All of the <a href="https://github.com/AOSC-Tracking/jdk/" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/AOSC-Tracking/jdk/</a> links 404 for me, so it's difficult to get a sense of what was being done. Going off of the "loongson fork" links though they look rather trivial. Not saying they should be ignored, but I do think trivial PRs to large critical open source projects like JDK can often end up taking more time away from contributing engineers doing reviews and testing than they are worth.<p>I know first-hand the frustration of having PRs ignored and it can be quite demoralizing, so I do feel for the author. It sounds like the author is getting to a place of peace with it, and my advice from having been down that path before is to do exactly that, and find something else interesting to hack on.
1/31/2026, 4:10:11 PM
by: voakbasda
When I want to contribute to an open source project, I throw together some trivial but useful patches and see how the project responds.<p>Many projects behave this way, particularly those with corporate overlords. At best, it will take weeks to get a simple patch reviewed. By then, I have moved on, at least with my intention to send anything upstream. I commend the author for giving them a whole year, but I have found that is best a recipe for disappointment.<p>Maintainers: how you react to patches and PRs significantly influence whether or not you get skilled contributors. When I was maintaining such projects, I always tried to reply within 24 hours to new contributors.<p>It would be interesting to see how quickly the retention rate drops off as the time to review/accept patches goes up. I imagine it looks like an exponential drop off.
1/31/2026, 4:41:37 PM
by: dwroberts
The PRs they link mostly seem like noise? “Remove the d prefix from this number because the C++ standard doesn’t require it”. Yeah great.
1/31/2026, 3:57:00 PM