[aarch64-port-dev ] Project proposal: AArch32 port

[Edward Nevill]

On Fri, 2015-10-23 at 14:53 +0200, dalibor topic wrote:
> On 22.10.2015 14:46, Edward Nevill wrote:
> > Hi Dalibor,
> >
> > Andrew Dinn ('adinn'), Andrew Haley ('aph') and myself to start with.
> 
> Thanks, Edward. That's a very accomplished group!

Thanks:)

> Since you're sending this e-mail from a non-Linaro account, while CC:ing 
> a number of people at Linaro, I am wondering which OCAs would you and 
> other Committers plan to make contributions under. Can you elaborate, 
> please?

Andrew Dinn and Andrew Haley will make contributions under the RedHat
OCA.

I will make contributions under the Linaro OCA. I currently use my gmail
address for contributing to JDK 9.

> 
> I noticed that in your initial set of Committers Joseph Joyce is 
> missing, while at the same time you seem to suggest using his externally 
> developed code to jump-start this Project.

Yes. Joseph worked as an intern at Linaro for 14 weeks over this summer
and did a great job porting the template interpreter in that time.

Unfortunately Joseph is no longer working for us.

However Linaro owns the copyright of all the work he did while he was
working for us and we can contribute it under the Linaro OCA.

> 
> That seems a bit unusual - typically the original author of a new 
> feature would want to continue to be actively involved during that 
> feature's further development in an OpenJDK Project, so I'm curious for 
> the rationale behind doing things differently in this case.

Joseph has indeed expressed an interest in continuing to contribute on a
voluntary basis. However, to the best of my knowledge, Joseph has not
signed the OCA in a personal capacity, therefore I did not include him
in the list of initial committers. If Joseph does sign the OCA in the
future then we would be happy to have him as a committer.

> 
> Can you and Joseph explain if you intend to use the template interpreter 
> code you referenced in the new Project, and if so, how (i.e. under which 
> OCA) it would be contributed to it? I'm asking since I don't see Joseph 
> Joyce mentioned at [0], and slides you referenced unfortunately provide 
> little information on that.

Yes, under the Linaro OCA.

> 
> Last but not least, is there anyone else who has contributed to the code 
> beside yourself, Joseph? Is there any code (or other materials) taken 
> from other third party or open source projects in it?

To the best of my knowledge no, but I didn't write it.

Joseph: Would you be able to confirm this?

Many thanks for your help Dalibor,

All the best,
Ed.