Quality outreach: JOSM and OpenJDK adoption

[Martijn Verburg]

Hi Vincent,

I'd say that would be most welcome - Rory?

On Sunday, 27 September 2015, Vincent Privat <vincent.privat at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Hi,
> I am a core developer of JOSM, the Java OpenStreetMap Editor. If you don't
> know about it, it is an extensible editor for OpenStreetMap (OSM), written
> in Java 7, under GPL license. You can find more information about it on
> [1], [2] and [3].
>
> The first version of JOSM was released 10 years ago, in 2005. At this time
> it was compatible with Java 5. We have since switched to Java 6, then 7. We
> are now currently considering the migration to Java 8 [4] and began to
> actively test JOSM with early builds of Java 9 [5]. The current test
> results with Java 9 are excellent as all unit tests are OK.
>
> During the past years the JOSM community has submitted several bug reports
> to Sun/Oracle on the public bug tracker. I don't have the exhaustive list,
> but 11 recent tickets can be found by searching "JOSM" keyword on JBS [6].
>
> Given this status, I wonder if JOSM can be mentioned in the Quality
> Outreach [7], and if some of our bug reports may be considered as valuable
> in the Quality Outreach report [8].
>
> Best regards,
> Vincent, for the JOSM team
>
> [1] https://josm.openstreetmap.de/
> [2] http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/JOSM
> [3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JOSM
> [4] https://josm.openstreetmap.de/ticket/11390
> [5] https://josm.openstreetmap.de/jenkins/job/JOSM/
> [6]
>
> https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/sr/jira.issueviews:searchrequest-printable/temp/SearchRequest.html?jqlQuery=text+~+%22josm%22
> [7] https://wiki.openjdk.java.net/display/quality/Quality+Outreach
> [8]
>
> https://wiki.openjdk.java.net/display/quality/Quality+Outreach+report+Sept+%272015
>


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