But that's not what's happening here, right? They're blocked on having their 'Oracle Contributer Agreement' approved; they're not even at the stage where their PRs are eligible for being ignored.
https://mail.openjdk.org/pipermail/hotspot-dev/2026-January/...
(So his ping "any progress?" apparently fell on the wrong ears, if he wasn't told he had to submit a new application with something corrected...)