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Note that author metadata recorded in the backport commit is the author of the backport commit, not the author of the original commit. Likewise the reviewers recorded in the commit message are the reviewers of the backport commit, not the reviewers of the original commit. If the author of the backport isn't Author in the project that the backport commit is created for, then the backport commit can be sponsored. In the case of a backport being sponsored, then the author will be recorded as the author of the commit and the sponsor as the committer of the commit (just as for regular commits).
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Changed paths and renamed files
Some file paths are significantly different between jdk8 and higher. This can make it hard for git to apply a backport patch, it might give errors connected to "rename detection". unshuffle_patch.sh is a script that changes file paths in a patch, to account for the layout changes between 8 and 11. The current state of this script is known to be incomplete to some extent, but it can still be valuable.