Open build & test infrastructure

[Volker Simonis]

Hi Ben,

Thank's a lot for caring about this topic!
I'll do my best to join you on Thursday.

Regards,
Volker

On Monday, October 1, 2012, Ben Evans wrote:

> Hi,
>
> For people at JavaOne - how does 1400 on Thursday work as a time for a
> physical meet?
>
> Let's do this in a bar close to J1 venues, but not at JavaOne itself,
> so if local people who don't have J1 badges want to attend, they can.
>
> Please RSVP if you want to come (or let me know if this is a bad slot
> & I should re-choose).
>
> Thanks,
>
> Ben
>
> On Mon, Oct 1, 2012 at 4:41 PM, Richard Bair <richard.bair at oracle.com<javascript:;>>
> wrote:
> > Guys, I'd love to be kept in the loop. Our current build situation in FX
> is far from ideal and with open sourcing the rest of our bits I have a big
> interest in making it dead easy to build and hack on FX from any IDE. I'm
> at J1 as well so if you have a meetup let me know :-)
> >
> > Thanks
> > Richard
> >
> > On Oct 1, 2012, at 4:00 PM, Steve Poole wrote:
> >
> >> hi Ben - great to see this proposal.    I'm definitely interested and
> I'm at J1.
> >>
> >> I'd like to see what we can do to get some common  build setup
>  documents published
> >> and to explore more about how developers who want to contribute can be
> sure their changes are "good" - where good means some level of build and
> test confidence across multiple platforms.
> >>
> >> Everyone wants to do a good job when contributing but currently the
> barrier can be  high and generally stacked against them.
> >>
> >> Lets get together if we can - its a great topic to discuss face to
> face.    I'm sure we can help reduce the barriers!
> >>
> >>
> >> On 1 Oct 2012, at 21:59, Ben Evans <benjamin.john.evans at gmail.com<javascript:;>>
> wrote:
> >>
> >>> Hi,
> >>>
> >>> In the last few months, the LJC (London Java Community) have been
> >>> running AdoptOpenJDK hack sessions - designed to get more developers
> >>> started with OpenJDK development.
> >>>
> >>> Whilst we've been running the sessions, we've met a lot of people who
> >>> are interested in making the build and test of OpenJDK easier. It
> >>> seems that there's a lot of desire to improve things, and a lot of
> >>> knowledge and useful software held by various parties which they may
> >>> be interested in sharing.
> >>>
> >>> For example, at the LJC we have some scripts used to build simple VMs
> >>> for teaching purposes, and we have heard that others have
> >>> complimentary software which could be contributed.
> >>>
> >>> So, this post is to call attention to this area, put out a public call
> >>> for interest (and ask potential participants to speak up), and see if
> >>> there is critical mass - and what suitable next steps should be.
> >>>
> >>> In particular - if people are interested & at JavaOne, please let me
> >>> know - let's try to organise & meet up whilst a large number of people
> >>> are physically in the same space.
> >>>
> >>> Thanks,
> >>>
> >>> Ben
> >>>
> >>
> >
>