Adopt OpenJDK hackday: July 2015

[Mani Sarkar]

Pleasure is mine ;)

Cheers,
Mani

On Wed, Jul 22, 2015 at 4:10 PM, dalibor topic <dalibor.topic at oracle.com>
wrote:

> Thanks a lot for the write up, Mani!
>
>
> On 21.07.2015 00:42, Mani Sarkar wrote:
>
>> Hi All,
>>
>> As we have been announcing via social media about our Hackday last
>> weekend,
>> we finally had it, and it was very busy with various small groups working
>> on different aspects of OpenJDK and Java ME.
>>
>> It was our first hackday where Testing Java Early got a lot of focus, as
>> compared to previous ones where Building OpenJDK took precedence.
>>
>> Thanks @Will, @Chris, @Julius and others who were trying to build using
>> JDK9, Maven, and Gradle, please share your findings with us - we would
>> like
>> to keep everyone informed.
>>
>> We also had two instances of not being able to load the VM on a Windows
>> machines and in both cases we took an alternative route:
>> - attempted to build OpenJDK on Amazon EC2 instance (with success) -
>> thanks
>> Allison for your patience, looking forward to your blog post.
>> - attempted to build OpenJDK on a CI server (CircleCI in this case) -
>> Carlos was busy with it, I hope he will get back to us when he has had
>> success.
>>
>> Anton was busy with fixing build warnings in the .cpp files - his patch
>> should be on its way to the respective mailing list.
>>
>> Two of the newbie adoptors were fastinated with OpenJDK, and decided to
>> continue with the project at home i.e. with the help of the gitbook.
>>
>> Richard and I were talking about Java 9 features and how we could make
>> everyone aware of whats coming and how to use these commands and features.
>>
>> Not forgetting Salesforce and Heroku for their support by hosting us and
>> providing breakfast and lunch.
>>
>> Thanks to all those who came, looking forward to your contributions.
>>
>> Regards,
>> Mani
>>
>>
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