Open build & test infrastructure

[Ben Evans]

Let's try to post this again, without tripping the "Too many CC:
recipients" watchdog...

Ben

---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Ben Evans <benjamin.john.evans at gmail.com>
Date: Tue, Oct 2, 2012 at 3:04 PM
Subject: Re: Open build & test infrastructure
To: Volker Simonis <volker.simonis at gmail.com>
Cc: "discuss at openjdk.java.net" <discuss at openjdk.java.net>, John Yeary
<jyeary at java.net>, Sacha Labourey <sacha at cloudbees.com>, Martijn
Verburg <martijnverburg at gmail.com>, Steve Poole <SPOOLE at uk.ibm.com>,
Tim Ellison <Tim_Ellison at uk.ibm.com>, Cecilia Borg
<cecilia.borg at oracle.com>, Andrew Haley <aph at redhat.com>, Donald Smith
<donald.smith at oracle.com>


Hi everyone,

Just to confirm, this meeting will take place at 1400 Pacific on
Thursday in Puccini and Pinetti Italian Bar & Grill, Hotel Abri, 127
Ellis at Cyril Magnan. There's an area reserved in my name.

Thanks,

Ben

On Mon, Oct 1, 2012 at 11:19 PM, Volker Simonis
<volker.simonis at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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>
>> 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>
>> >> 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
>> >>>
>> >>
>> >