Hello!

[Jacob Glickman]

I apologize in advance, as I know I'm going to have trouble quoting
snippets of responses.  Anyway, thank you very much for the advice!  I'll
be sure to search thoroughly before proposing anything, and I'd love to
discuss my proposed changes and why I believe they should be implemented.
Also, I'd be happy to fully code, test, and write documentation for the
change (if accepted, of course).  Unfortunately I've never used Mercurial
before, so I can imagine that it'll be overwhelming at first like you said.

> Feel free to write up your proposal here first :-)

Meanwhile, I'll do some searching and possibly write up a proposal to be
sent here first for feedback before submitting it to 'core-libs'.  Does
there happen to be an efficient way to search through the mailing list?  If
not, I reckon I could download the text versions and write something to
parse through it (if that's allowed).  Thanks again!

- Jacob

On Mon, Apr 30, 2018 at 2:17 PM, Martijn Verburg <martijnverburg at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Hi Jacob,
>
> Responses inline!
>
> On 30 April 2018 at 18:25, Jacob Glickman <jhg023 at bucknell.edu> wrote:
>
>> I originally posted this in 'discuss', but was redirected to here.
>>
>> Hello!  My name is Jacob, and I just joined as an OpenJDK contributor the
>> other day.  I have a plethora of ideas regarding new methods to add to
>> existing APIs; however, I'm not entirely sure how to go about proposing
>> them (or, at least, *where* to propose them).  Specifically, I was looking
>> for the mailing list that covers Java's Collections API, but I'm not sure
>> which one that would be (if I had to guess, it would be jdk-dev).
>
>
> Proposals would go to core-libs first but it's *highly* recommended that
> you:
>
> a.) Check that this proposal or one like it hasn't been raised before both
> in the mailing list
> archives http://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/core-libs-dev/ and in the
> JBUG database
> https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/secure/Dashboard.jspa
>
> Feel free to write up your proposal here first :-)
>
> b.) Be prepared to discuss the change first
>
> c.) If everyone agrees be prepared to fully code, test and build the
> changes
> on the appropriate forest.  The Adopt Build Farm can help here.
>
>
>> I've read over the "How to Contribute" page as well, but I'm still
>> confused
>> regarding how to build the JDK (or even where to get the files from to
>> make
>> changes).  If anyone could provide me with some tips that helped them when
>> they joined, I would be very grateful!
>>
>
> OpenJDK uses Mercurial Forests and the development is is done on mainline:
>
> See http://openjdk.java.net/projects/jdk/ for details
>
> The Adopt Build Farm has build scripts and infra if you want to test on
> other platforms.
>
> There's an awful lot to get your head around and things to do before you
> can get patches
> accepted, but it's worth the effort!
>
> Cheers,]
> Martijn
>
>
>
>
>>
>> - Jacob
>>
>
>