OpenJdk Mirror for Github

[Martijn Verburg]

The Betterrev project is here:

https://bitbucket.org/adoptopenjdk/betterrev/

It's been on a bit of a hiatus, but if you fork it and get it up and
running then there's a number of dev tasks to complete...

Cheers,
Martijn

On 27 July 2015 at 18:44, Mo Sch <moritz.schleunes at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> thanks for your quick response.
>
> That sound great. How can I help you?
>
> Cheers
>
> Moritz
>
>
> 2015-07-27 19:24 GMT+02:00 Martijn Verburg <martijnverburg at gmail.com>:
>
>> 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
>>>
>>
>>
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