OpenJDK 8 adoption in Fedora and Debian Linux distributions

[dalibor topic]

Yeah, I've got in touch with Fedora devs to get their take on their 
OpenJDK 8 rebuild results, to help expand the list of FOSS projects 
we're in touch with. I'm on the road this week, though, so I won't have 
time to help consolidate a list from the Debian and Fedora candidate 
pools until next week.

Once we have a consolidated list, let's look at which projects we have 
personal contacts with, introduce them to this list and Rory, and add 
those that chose to participate in the QA outreach to the wiki.

cheers,
dalibor topic

On 06.05.2014 05:38, Martijn Verburg wrote:
> Hi Dalibor,
>
> Great idea - I see the Fedora maintainer has already been on the IRC
> channel getting some assistance, I'll add these two projects to the list.
>
> Cheers,
> Martijn
>
>
> On 3 May 2014 08:30, dalibor topic <dalibor.topic at oracle.com
> <mailto:dalibor.topic at oracle.com>> wrote:
>
>     Hi,
>
>     with JDK 8 out of the door, Linux distributions like Fedora and
>     Debian are looking to package it, and maybe even migrate to it in
>     their future releases. A part of what packagers do when they
>     introduce a new major version of the JDK into their operating
>     systems is to try to 'rebuild the world from source' to try to shake
>     out possible issues using the new JDK - accordingly they tend to
>     find slightly different issues from developers testing how well
>     their projects run on a new JDK version.
>
>     You can track the progress of the Fedora packagers on the java-devel
>     mailing list in a thread starting at
>     https://lists.fedoraproject.__org/pipermail/java-devel/2014-__April/005187.html
>     <https://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/java-devel/2014-April/005187.html>
>     , and the efforts of the Debian packagers in a thread starting on
>     the debian-java list here:
>     https://lists.debian.org/__debian-java/2014/04/msg00092.__html
>     <https://lists.debian.org/debian-java/2014/04/msg00092.html>
>
>     For the purposes of extending our successful QA outreach to a
>     broader set of FOSS projects, I think those development libraries,
>     which have been indicated in both efforts as requiring a second look
>     wrt to building and running flawlessly with JDK 8, would be a great
>     pool to consider reaching out to, and encourage to test early and
>     regularly on upcoming JDK releases.
>
>     cheers,
>     dalibor topic
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