OpenJdk Mirror for Github

[Martijn Verburg]

Hi Moritz,

Never say never, but unlikely to happen in the short term.  We are working
on Betterrev - an experiment to have a clone of popular OpenJDK forests
hosted on BitBucket to allow a similar workflow.  If you're interested in
helping out, let us know!

Cheers,
Martijn

On 27 July 2015 at 18:21, Mo Sch <moritz.schleunes at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> recently Microsoft open sourced their CLR Runtime on github and gained a
> lot of interest from various developers.
>
> Is there something that stops openjdk from doing the same? This is probably
> a big effort mirroring openjdk and tracking pull requests but it should be
> worth the effort.
>
> Most open source developer are on github anyway. This would also attract
> new developers who most likely start at github and may not even know the
> existence of OpenJdks Mercurial repos.
>
> Looking at the recent success from Microsoft using github it should be
> serious considered at oracle having at least an actively maintained tree of
> openJdk at github .
>
> Maybe it will be enough to upload just a few cool projects like sumatra or
> Graal / truffel for example.
>
> That would reduce the overhead and still should attract a lot of new
> developers.
>
> Just my 2 cents
>
> So long
>
> Moritz
>