Proposing projects for OpenJDK

[Martijn Verburg]

Sounds reasonable, we could list those projects on the Wiki (which we're
wrestling into shape for us).

Cheers,
Martijn


On 6 February 2014 10:22, Ben Evans <benjamin.john.evans at gmail.com> wrote:

> What about having a look through the OpenJDK codebase looking for tools
> that are orphaned / abandoned? There are some, I can think of a couple at
> least.
>
> Once we've identified them, a group of us could look at the tool, and
> reach consensus as to whether we think they're useful enough to salvage -
> and either patch them up to date or make a recommendation to remove them
> from the codebase.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Ben
>
>
> On Wed, Feb 5, 2014 at 5:46 PM, Martijn Verburg <martijnverburg at gmail.com>wrote:
>
>> Hi all,
>>
>> **Important - please remember to sign-up to the
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>> there please**
>>
>> We have a couple of projects that *may* fall nicely into OpenJDK itself.
>> Just as a heads up I'm holding off on proposing any for a week or two until
>> the virtual-images, betterrev and jitwatch projects go through somewhat of
>> a 1.0.0 release.
>>
>> For reference, the following projects (or parts of projects) may have
>> merit in terms of being part of OpenJDK proper, see
>> https://github.com/adoptopenjdk/ and https://bitbucket.org/adoptopenjdk/for details on these projects:
>>
>> * Betterrev (patch review and build farm system)
>> * virtual-images (developer vm in a box)
>> * Jitwatch (JavaFX tool to visualise JIT compilation)
>> * Lambda tutorials (TDD driven tutorials for learning this Java 8 feature)
>>
>> When in doubt, we'll opt for a 'continue developing it outside of OpenJDK
>> until it makes sense to move it'.  With that in mind it may be far too
>> early to consider any of these projects or the code artifacts they contain!
>>
>> Having any code / projects going into OpenJDK is a big commitment and
>> needs lengthy discussion first, so comments / feedback is welcome!
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Martijn
>>
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