On what issues could I help clean up for JDK 9

[Martijn Verburg]

Hi all,

It does come across as a bit Chicken and Egg at times (even if that isn't
the intent). Since this group is meant to help new joiners perhaps as a
starting step we could find a few issues and work on them collaboratively
on this mailing list.

Following Claes's advice, how does this one sound?

https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-6253001

Where an internal test is failing
(com.sun.rowset.tests.smoke.joinrowset.joinrowset3.JoinRowSet3#testJoinRowSet22
FAILED)

It's an old bug so as per Dalibor's suggestion we could post to core-libs,
start a discussion that we'd like to take a look into this issue (starting
by trying to reproduce it) and see what people say.

Thoughts?




Cheers,
Martijn

On 2 December 2016 at 21:35, Patrick Reinhart <patrick at reini.net> wrote:

> It’s a bit disappointing answer after all.
>
> All you get told on the various Presentations is that „we need you“, but
> when you actually try to help there seem’s to be nobody that actually
> want’s to mentor new contributors. I know that a new contributors should
> prove in a some way that they are willing to do more than one contribution.
> But on the other hand if I ask for help, I should also do some investment
> on my side.
>
> The main reason for keeping me on trying to help is the nice response of a
> couple guys like you Stephen, Stuart Marks, Mandy Chung and Paul Sandoz to
> just name a few that actually took the time to help me going.
>
> I read the post [1] but only pointing to documentation only seems to me
> not be mentoring
>
> For me it looks like:
>
> „We are so busy working, that we got not time to help new guys in getting
> in shape, to take over some of the work“
>
> -Patirck
>
> [1] http://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/adoption-discuss/
> 2016-August/001422.html
>
>
> > Am 02.12.2016 um 17:13 schrieb Stephen Colebourne <scolebourne at joda.org
> >:
> >
> > This advice reads as "go bother some other mailing list, we're too
> > busy doing important things". Essentially it ensures that there will
> > be no new contributors to the JDK (core-libs) because they have all
> > been sent elsewhere.
> >
> > Stephen
> >
> >
> > On 2 December 2016 at 15:08, dalibor topic <dalibor.topic at oracle.com>
> wrote:
> >> Community-wide 'starter issues' are a better idea in theory, then they
> are
> >> in practice.
> >>
> >> Typically the theory behind them is to mark some low priority issues for
> >> someone else to fix. But in practice, not all low priority fixes are
> welcome
> >> at all times. See
> >> http://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/adoption-discuss/
> 2016-August/001422.html
> >> for a longer explanation why that's the case.
> >>
> >> In practice, it's a better idea to focus new contributors' attention
> not on
> >> what they can do for the large projects with schedules, processes and
> all
> >> that good, complicated stuff that enables releases to happen, like JDK
> 9 or
> >> JDK 8 Updates, but on what they can do in the projects that are in a
> more
> >> exploratory phase, such as Valhalla. Beside exploration of new ideas
> being
> >> more fun for new contributors, they are also often eager for the kind of
> >> feedback on the new ideas and designs, that comes from playing with the
> new
> >> toys and often enough, breaking them in interesting ways.
> >>
> >> cheers,
> >> dalibor topic
> >>
> >>
> >> On 02.12.2016 13:53, Patrick Reinhart wrote:
> >>>
> >>> What was the outcome of that discussion?
> >>>
> >>> I seem to miss that one. My question comes from the past presentation I
> >>> gave about contributing to the OpenJDK. And one of the main things was
> not
> >>> only to do some local hacking but instead try to solve some small
> issues,
> >>> that else would not be fixed because of other more important things.
> >>>
> >>> -Patrick
> >>>
> >>>> Am 02.12.2016 um 11:45 schrieb Martijn Verburg
> >>>> <martijnverburg at gmail.com>:
> >>>>
> >>>> There's no JBS query that I know of (I think in the distant past we
> >>>> discussed adding a low hanging fruit 'Duke' tag?).
> >>>>
> >>>> Cheers,
> >>>> Martijn
> >>>
> >>>
> >>
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