Submitting patches to OpenJDK

[Mani Sarkar]

Thanks Martijn, this should answer everyone's questions post Java 8 release
- and availability of OpenJDK 9!

Cheers,
Mani


On Wed, Mar 26, 2014 at 5:23 PM, Martijn Verburg
<martijnverburg at gmail.com>wrote:

> Hi Mani,
>
> It's a good question and I'm sure Dalibor will weigh in if I get this
> wrong but basically here goes.  In most cases you:
>
> 1.) You create a patch against OpenJDK 9 HEAD for the appropriate forest
> (most people will just go for the efault unless they're doing specialist
> Hotspot etc work).
>
> 2.) You should of course run the tests locally.
>
> 3.) You should check the openJDK project page for the area that you are
> making the change in and look to see what coding standards they have an
> meet those.
>
> 3.a.) You'll also need to check what the review process for that project
> is.  But typically you need to find one sponsor who has Reviewer status
> (especially if your change is a semantic one)
>
> 4.) You then need to create a webrev (using the webrev.sh tool in the
> codetools project) and host that somewhere.
>
> 5.) You'll need to sign the OCA if you haven't done so already.
>
> 6.) You'll mail the link to your webrev to the right mailing list in
> OpenJDK asking for a sponsor with Reviewer status to review your change and
> perhaps open up a bug/issue on your behalf in the JBUG database (or you
> should reference an existing one).
>
> 7.) Assuming your patch passes review it will then be merged into OpenJDK.
> Please note that subsequent testing by Oracle's internal team in particular
> may find bugs in your patch and you'll be asked to fix those.
>
> I think that roughly covers it, you can see why we're trying to introduce
> Betterev soon to streamline the process :-).
>
> Cheers,
> Martijn
>
>
>
>
>
> Cheers,
> Martijn
>
>
> On 26 March 2014 13:42, mani <sadhak001 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Hi Martijn,
>>
>> We have been asked (over the conference call and in person at JavaLand),
>> what is the process flow for submitting patches for both bug fixes and
>> enhancements from start to finish (before its been merged into the repos).
>>
>> Hopefully they are on this mailing list and would be able to benefit from
>> the response.
>>
>> Regards,
>> Mani
>>
>> On Thursday, 14 November 2013 10:11:32 UTC, Martijn Verburg wrote:
>>>
>>> Hi all,
>>>
>>> Just a warning that as the end game for Java 8 arrives, the project will
>>> be less likely to accept patches unless they are purely bug fixes or things
>>> like documentation tidy-up.
>>>
>>> Cheers,
>>> Martijn
>>>
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