SigTest Tool

[Dmitry Buzdin]

Hello,

I am looking for a right person to get in touch with regards to SigTest
tool development?

https://wiki.openjdk.java.net/display/CodeTools/sigtest

The project I am working on would benefit greatly from that, but there are
certain API extensibility issues and the whole build process and publishing
to Maven Central is basically absent.
After move to Mercurial Jenkins was not reconfigured etc. etc.

I have possibility to contribute, but need help from someone with commit
rights and idea of what is going on.

Suggestions are:
- start publishing to Maven Central (via Bintray or directly)
- Work on API to ensure violation levels are configurable (so error could
be substituted by warning in some projects via configuration file or system
property)
- Reconfigure Jenkins Job on cloudbees so it runs smoothly from new repo (
https://adopt-openjdk.ci.cloudbees.com/job/sigtest/)

The ultimate goal is to treat SigTest as a low-level core library and start
building proper maven plugins, which would analyse API changes, but only in
certain packages and classes annotated as @Stable. This would be quite a
convenient tool for any build pipeline of mature framework.

I can share more details about the approach, but the first thing is to help
getting it to Maven repo and fix closed API restriction.

Regards,
Dmitry Buzdin
JUG Latvia Lead