On what issues could I help clean up for JDK 9

[Martijn Verburg]

Hi Patrick,

Hmm, you're right, it may not be, let's take a look :-)

Cheers,
Martijn

On 5 December 2016 at 22:07, Patrick Reinhart <patrick at reini.net> wrote:

>
> > Am 05.12.2016 um 11:12 schrieb Martijn Verburg <martijnverburg at gmail.com
> >:
> >
> > 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?
> >
>
> I can take a look into that - I guess the actual test is not public right?
>
> -Patrick
>
> >
> >
> >
> > 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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