--- title: "Giving up upstream-ing my patches & feel free to pick them up" url: https://daily.dev/posts/giving-up-upstream-ing-my-patches-feel-free-to-pick-them-up-9mctekrsu source_url: https://mail.openjdk.org/pipermail/hotspot-dev/2026-January/118080.html type: article source: "Hacker News" published: 2026-01-31T19:55:58.710Z updated: 2026-01-31T19:56:19.059Z tags: ["open-source", "java"] reading_time: 3 upvotes: 2 comments: 1 language: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Giving up upstream-ing my patches & feel free to pick them up **[Hacker News](https://daily.dev/sources/hn)** · 3 min read · 2 upvotes · 1 comments ## Summary A developer shares their frustrating year-long experience attempting to contribute patches to OpenJDK, where their Oracle Contributor Agreement submission remained unreviewed despite multiple follow-ups. After waiting over a year with no progress, they're abandoning their upstream efforts and releasing several patches for others to adopt, including fixes for llvm-config checks, thread stack size issues in zero variants, and Loongson JDK fork improvements. The author invites others to rewrite and submit these patches as original work without attribution. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. Read it at the original source: ## Community discussion Top comments from developers on daily.dev. **@theacademe** · 1 upvotes > Oracle. Nuff said ## Similar posts on daily.dev - [foojay – a place for friends of OpenJDK](https://daily.dev/posts/foojay-a-place-for-friends-of-openjdk-gseiolfad) · Foojay.io · 0 upvotes · 0 comments - [Java News Roundup: OpenJDK, Oracle Critical Patches, Open Liberty, Testcontainers, IntelliJ IDEA](https://daily.dev/posts/java-news-roundup-openjdk-oracle-critical-patches-open-liberty-testcontainers-intellij-idea-lxfbpjvlu) · InfoQ · 1 upvotes · 0 comments --- Tags: [#open-source](https://daily.dev/tags/open-source), [#java](https://daily.dev/tags/java) [View this post on daily.dev](https://daily.dev/posts/giving-up-upstream-ing-my-patches-feel-free-to-pick-them-up-9mctekrsu)