Project Proposal: Code Tools

[Jonathan Gibbons]

On behalf of the Compiler Group, I declare that the Compiler Group is 
pleased to sponsor such a Project.

-- Jon


On 03/10/2012 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.
>
> There are a number of initial candidates for inclusion in such a Project.
>
> * jtreg
>      jtreg is the regression test harness for the OpenJDK platform.
>      It is currently just available via source bundles [2].
>
> * jtharness
>      jtharness is the test framework underlying jtreg [3].
>
> * sigtest
>      sigtest is a set of utilities relating to API signature checking 
> [4].
>
> * the Mercurial "jcheck" extension
>      jcheck provides simple validity checks on the contents of a 
> changeset
>
> 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.
>
>
> -- Jon Gibbons
>
>
> [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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