Fwd: OpenJdk Mirror for Github

[Mo Sch]

Hello,

i just figured out Graal is already on github (it is also actively
maintained)

https://github.com/OracleLabs/GraalVM/


To push attention we could publish a short description on Hackernews or the
java subreddit (just an idea i don't plan to do anything like this).


Cheers,

Moritz

2015-07-27 21:56 GMT+02:00 Kervin Pierre <kervin at sludev.com>:

> I believe that's a great idea, and I'm not sure why this hasn't been
> done.
>
> Github is simply what most developers are using at this moment.  It
> doesn't have to be a better workflow for a read-only mirror to have
> value.
>
> Apache, I believe, came to the same conclusion.  Many of their projects
> are mirrored on Github.  https://github.com/apache
>
> I suspect you can accomplish a 3rd party mirror by using Hg-Git
> http://hg-git.github.io/
>
> Setting up hg-git on a tiny instance somewhere might be all that's
> needed to do this if I'm not mistaken.
>
> Best regards,
> Kervin
>
> On Mon, 2015-07-27 at 19:21 +0200, Mo Sch 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
>
>