OpenJdk Mirror for Github

[Mo Sch]

Okay. I see. I dont have bitbucket yet. But i surely will give it a try. As
far as I understand this is a community driven project?


Is there a reason oracle doesn't just offical support it?



2015-07-27 19:49 GMT+02:00 Martijn Verburg <martijnverburg at gmail.com>:

> 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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