Producing community binaries for OpenJDK

[dalibor topic]

On 09.03.2017 18:43, Ben Evans wrote:
> I'm looping in adoption-discuss, AdoptOpenJDK and Martijn, as I'm not
> sure how many other folk are reading openjdk-binary.

As far as I can tell that mailing list seems private - i.e. the 'view 
this discussion' URL below is not readable for me, so I'm not sure if I 
have enough context about what is being proposed to comment.

> Adoption folk - what do we think? Does this fit under the existing structure?

The Adoption Group in OpenJDK does not host code. That's what Projects 
do. ;)

 From the perspective of considering a separate OpenJDK Project that 
collects various source code build scripts, patches, folk wisdom, etc. - 
if I understand the purpose of the thread - I think the Build Group 
would be a better place to discuss it, as people actually building the 
JDK across many platforms are already there.

In fact, one such Project already exists: 
http://openjdk.java.net/projects/icedtea/ . It's not clear to me what if 
anything different from it is being discussed or proposed here.

cheers,
dalibor topic

> Tim - assuming that it does, what practical things can AdoptOpenJDK do
> to help you?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Ben
>
> On Thu, Mar 9, 2017 at 4:15 PM, Tim Ellison <Tim_Ellison at uk.ibm.com> wrote:
>> I've now got some cycles for actually doing some build work around OpenJDK.
>> There are a couple of colleagues here at IBM who can also contribute to the
>> build process.
>>
>> It seems that the closest starting point for community build/test is the
>> fine work that was done as part of the Adopt OpenJDK project; though it
>> looks like that has been quiet for a while?
>>
>> So we have started "from scratch" this week and are writing some build
>> scripts we'd like to move into the open and share with folks.  It will start
>> simple, building Linux x86_64 and rolling out to Mac, PPC, and Windows.
>> Likewise starting with some JTReg testing, and building that out to more
>> meaningful tests.  We like Git, so it's currently housed in a private Git
>> repo.
>>
>> The goal is to have a continuous integration system pulling from OpenJDK and
>> producing community binaries that are built using a fully open build system,
>> so everyone can validate how it was created, and the dependencies and
>> patches that it includes, etc.  Of course, the idea is that changes that are
>> relevant to OpenJDK source end up back there; but there will always be build
>> specific-files, and point-in-time patches required to produce a working
>> binary.
>>
>> If there is enough flexibility at the Adopt OpenJDK project, I'd prefer to
>> push the code there and continue working under that organization; but
>> understand if that project would prefer we set up our own space elsewhere.
>>
>> Just to be clear, I'm not proposing to open up IBM's Java build system
>> (believe me, you wouldn't want to have that!); it's much simpler than that
>> -- just a CI clone/build/test/publish cycle, and then see where things go
>> from there.
>>
>> Thoughts?
>> Tim
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