Producing community binaries for OpenJDK

[dalibor topic]

On 11.03.2017 16:20, Mike Burton wrote:
> Could you point me to resources that can help me fix this please?

Hi Mike,

the mailing list used by IcedTea developers is 
http://mail.openjdk.java.net/mailman/listinfo/distro-pkg-dev - I would 
suggest asking for specifics there.

> Also where is the CI?

CI results are being posted to 
http://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/icedtea-test/ afaict.

cheers,
dalibor topic

> Best Regards
>
> Mike Burton
>
>> On 11 Mar 2017, at 10:10, dalibor topic <dalibor.topic at oracle.com> wrote:
>>
>>
>>
>> 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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