Reg : How to contribute

[Ulf Zibis]

Am 15.07.2009 16:26, Neal Gafter schrieb:
> On Wed, Jul 15, 2009 at 4:01 AM, Dalibor Topic <Dalibor.Topic at sun.com 
> <mailto:Dalibor.Topic at sun.com>> wrote:
>
>     A good start is the OpenJDK developer guide - see
>     http://openjdk.java.net/guide/ to learn how the project works.
>
>
> That set of pages is mostly filled with promises of the form "This 
> section will contain...".  For example 
> <http://openjdk.java.net/guide/processWorkflow.html>:
>
>
>   Process Workflow
>
> version 0.01
>
> This is the main navigation for the document and the primary entry 
> point. It is intended to be a quick start and overview which will have 
> a hyperlinked diagram indicating sample work flows for common 
> operations such as submitting a bug fix and adding a new API.
>
> At one time these sections also contained a schedule for when they 
> would be completed, but those dates have long since passed and the 
> schedule has been removed.  It appears that supporting external 
> contributors was never very high-priority.
>
> -Neal
>

I think, it would be good idea to make the webrev tool available for 
external contributors too. It's the perfect tool for discussion on 
changesets.
Additionally IMHO support for working with NetBeans is not as it could be.

-Ulf