Minutes from FOSDEM F2F meeting

[Martijn Verburg]

Hi all,

As I mentioned late last year, the Adopt OpenJDK programme has been
formalised into an official OpenJDK Group (
http://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/announce/2013-December/000159.html).

Behind the scenes Dalibor is doing a great job in getting us set-up in
OpenJDK land and we had our first F2F meeting of the group at FOSDEM over
the weekend.

Here are the rough outcomes of that meeting:

Overall:

* Betterrev, Virtual images for developers, increasing FOSS projects that
test on OpenJDK nightlies and global hackathons were all broadly agreed on
as being worthwhile areas to pursue.

1.) We need a Mission Statement for the group that clearly highlights that
we wish to effectively scale contributions to OpenJDK.  By effectively, we
mena in such a manner that the existing ~300-400 full time OpenJDK
contributors don't get overwhelmed.

I'll start a separate thread on this shortly.

2.) We need to gather metrics on the activities of the Adoption Group, to
report quarterly.

I'll start a separate thread on this shortly.

3.) We'd like to bring together a broad group of Adoption supporters that
are experienced Java/C/C++ developers and/or have Contributor, Committer,
Author or Reviewer status within OpenJDK (for various projects) to act as a
group that can triage new contributor patch reviews, bug submissions and so
forth.

Patches - The rough idea will be that the Betterrev system will feed
patches by new contributors into this channel for review before being
forwarded to the various individual OpenJDK mailing lists.  This will help
foster a culture of high quality patches going into OpenJDK by new
contributors and helping those contributors go through the patch submission
process and other OpenJDK conventions.

Bug submissions - The rough idea will be that this group can assist with
triage of bug reports and feature requests by new contributors. This will
help foster a culture of high quality bug reports going into OpenJDK by new
contributors and helping those contributors understand what is required of
a submission in order for it to be worked upon. An outstanding task for
this is to understand the number of Java/OpenJDK related bug reports come
in over time period X via bugs.sun.com.

I'll start a separate thread on this shortly.

4.) Some alterations were suggested for the Betterrev system to allow
existing Webrev patches to flow through and to have patches initially go to
the broad group mentioned in 3.)

5.) Mario Torres stated that it would be great to have OpenJDK as an
official Google Summer of Code organisation

I'll start a separate thread on this shortly.

6.) Design of a simple static HTML page will be needed for the Adoption
home page.

I'll start a separate thread on this shortly.

7.) Opening of the Wiki was also briefly discussed.

I'll start a separate thread on this shortly.

Right, I think that was it!  Thanks to Dalibor, Cecilia, Daniel, Mani,
Rory, Volker, Murali, Mario, Roman, Sunny and anyone else I missed for a
great productive start!

Cheers,

Martijn