OpenJDK contribution

[Martijn Verburg]

Awesome, this is already a good learning exercise for me as well!

Cheers,
Martijn

On 5 August 2016 at 13:44, Manuela Grindei <manuelag2004 at yahoo.co.uk> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> Thank you both for explaining the process, it's very useful to understand
> the flow.
>
> I emailed the group you indicated about my intention to create a patch for
> that issue and I'm now waiting for feedback. I'll let you know if there are
> any objections.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Manuela
>
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> *From:* dalibor topic <dalibor.topic at oracle.com>
> *To:* Martijn Verburg <martijnverburg at gmail.com>
> *Cc:* "adoption-discuss at openjdk.java.net" <adoption-discuss at openjdk.
> java.net>
> *Sent:* Friday, 5 August 2016, 9:25
> *Subject:* Re: OpenJDK contribution
>
>
>
> On 05.08.2016 10:13, Martijn Verburg wrote:
> > Sounds convoluted?  There's strong reasoning behind it, basically
> > *great* caution and restraint must be applied to changing a version of
> > Java already in PRD use by 100's of millions of applications :-). For
> > the full list of ground rules for contributing to Java 8 updates
> > see http://openjdk.java.net/projects/jdk8u/
> > <http://java.net/projects/jdk8u/>groundrules.html
> >
> > @Manuela - let us know how you get on over at the jdk8u-dev mailing
> > list, if you get stuck please ask here! :-)
>
> Fwiw, the reasoning for "post ideas first, patches later" is slightly
> different : not all ideas are as good upon reflection as they may
> initially seem - for example, the Project might not be interested in
> P4/P5 issues at a particular point in time, because they are ramping
> down towards a release.
>
> So inquiring about an idea first avoids the typical, frustrating open
> source situation where someone just goes ahead and does something,
> assuming they are doing the world a service, but the world at large does
> not care about that particular thing at the time, or someone else has
> already done it, or whatever other reasons there are for things to go
> amiss.
>
> That's often a very frustrating experience for the submitter, as they
> had sunk their heart and effort into something assuming they'd be doing
> something good, and for the recipients, as they have to deal with those
> frustrations rather than with the issues they wanted to deal with already.
>
> A good way to avoid that problem is to make people talk about things
> they plan to do first, before they invest themselves into them. If no
> one joins in the conversation, it may turn out that the idea is not as
> worth doing to others as it may initially seem, for example.
>
>
> cheers,
> dalibor topic
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