Idea from today's JCP EC call

[Martijn Verburg]

Well sourceforge is also an old but large repo of Java projects, but
most have moved to GitHub as you say.
Cheers,
Martijn


On 15 March 2017 at 13:06, Mani Sarkar <sadhak001 at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi Ben,
>
> I could have a look at them and create a list. I'm happy to help with the
> query too, if you like .
>
> @martijn - bitbucket Is one other place, thinking of it again, github must
> have 80% of publicly hosted Java projects.
>
> Cheers,
> Mani
>
>
> On Wed, 15 Mar 2017 11:55 Ben Evans, <benjamin.john.evans at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> Hi Mani,
>>
>> If you have some cycles, if you can identify where each project on
>> Rory's list is hosted (unless you already have that information,
>> Rory?) then I can get started on writing the query for those of them
>> who are hosted on Github.
>>
>> Then, to Martijn's point, we can see which other repositories we may
>> need to target as well.
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Ben
>>
>>
>> On Tue, Mar 14, 2017 at 6:26 PM, Mani Sarkar <sadhak001 at gmail.com> wrote:
>> > Hi Ben,
>> >
>> > Great idea.
>> >
>> > From a tech point of view how would you want to scan these - a cron job
>> > that
>> > wakes up every few hours and lists all the repos/projects and new ones
>> > since
>> > the last run ?
>> >
>> > Also what is the plan for non-github repositories.
>> >
>> > Cheers,
>> > Mani
>> > Ps: feel free to pm me if necessary
>> >
>> >
>> > On Tue, 14 Mar 2017 16:41 Ben Evans, <benjamin.john.evans at gmail.com>
>> > wrote:
>> >>
>> >> Hi,
>> >>
>> >> On today's EC call, we had an update from Rory about outreach to
>> >> open-source projects to help ensure testing on JDK 9.
>> >>
>> >> One question that came up is - can we get some better sense as to
>> >> which projects are actually creating modules and going "Java 9
>> >> native", as opposed to producing Java 9-compatible jars and running
>> >> under legacy classloading?
>> >>
>> >> Two places that we thought we could start with are:
>> >>
>> >> * BigQuery on Github - to detect use of Java 9 keywords or
>> >> module-info.java
>> >>
>> >> * Module files appearing in public artifact repositories
>> >>
>> >> I think it would be really useful to help get an idea of how widely
>> >> adopted modules really are.
>> >>
>> >> Thoughts?
>> >>
>> >> Thanks,
>> >>
>> >> Ben
>> >
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