Project Proposal: Code Tools

[Kelly O'Hair]

On Mar 10, 2012, at 11:19 AM, Jonathan Gibbons wrote:

> In accordance with the OpenJDK guidelines [1], I would like to start the discussion of a new Project to provide tools of use to OpenJDK developers while working on the OpenJDK code base. Such tools currently include test tools and Mercurial extensions; it is envisaged that additional tools will be added over time, subject to the Project Lead's approval.
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> There are a number of initial candidates for inclusion in such a Project.
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> * jtreg
>     jtreg is the regression test harness for the OpenJDK platform.
>     It is currently just available via source bundles [2].
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> * jtharness
>     jtharness is the test framework underlying jtreg [3].
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> * sigtest
>     sigtest is a set of utilities relating to API signature checking [4].
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> * the Mercurial "jcheck" extension
>     jcheck provides simple validity checks on the contents of a changeset


I wonder if one repository holding all the Mercurial extensions would make sense?

Not sure it's a big deal, just a suggestion.

I think this is a good idea.

-kto

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> It is expected that most of these tools will have their own separate communities, and so each tool should have its own repositories and mailing list.
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> -- Jon Gibbons
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> [1]http://openjdk.java.net/projects/#new-project
> [2]http://openjdk.java.net/jtreg
> [3]http://jtharness.java.net/
> [4]http://sigtest.java.net/
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