OpenJdk Mirror for Github

[Martijn Verburg]

Part of the adoption group is to try proof of concepts for openjdk and
report back on the pros and cons - we are hoping to get betterev to the
state where we can see what it might be like to have a GitHub like
experience with a project that requires strict code controls

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

> 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?
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> Is there a reason oracle doesn't just offical support it?
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> 2015-07-27 19:49 GMT+02:00 Martijn Verburg <martijnverburg at gmail.com
> <javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','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
>> <javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','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
>>> <javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','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
>>>> <javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','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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Cheers, Martijn (Sent from Gmail Mobile)