How to find a proper bug to fix

[Martijn Verburg]

Hi Konstantin,

If you visit http://adoptopenjdk.java.net it has all of the explanations
and details there. In short it's simply a community of people who are new
to OpenJDK (and are typically more casual contributors) and are trying to
help each other out.

Cheers,
Martijn


On 13 August 2013 11:15, Konstantin Perikov <konstantin.perikov at gmail.com>wrote:

> Hi, Martin.
>
> Could you point me the direction of work for adopt OpenJDK? As I
> understand this is not actually an OpenJDK, but some kind of a helper?
>
> David, Andrew,
>
> Thanks for your answers. Tha'ts really what upset me, with work on OpenJDK.
>
> Konstantin
>
>
>
>
> 2013/8/13 Martijn Verburg <martijnverburg at gmail.com>
>
>> Hi Konstantin,
>>
>> If you're completely stuck then we've compiled together a few lists of
>> things at http://adoptopenjdk.java.net - small tasks that help you get
>> familiar with the OpenJDK code base.
>>
>> PS: A new bug tracking system is due to come in soon which should make
>> this all a lot easier.
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Martijn
>>
>>
>> On 13 August 2013 08:47, David Holmes <david.holmes at oracle.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Hi Konstantin,
>>>
>>>
>>> On 13/08/2013 4:44 PM, Konstantin Perikov wrote:
>>>
>>>> Hi,
>>>>
>>>> I join OpenJDK community like a week ago. And already made one "not a
>>>> big
>>>> deal" fix. The main problem, that I see - it's really hard to find bugs
>>>> on
>>>> bugs.sun.com
>>>>
>>>> You can only search by Bug ID or by some keywords. But there is not
>>>> filtering by status or JDK version. So, I'll try next bug for me, but
>>>> spent
>>>> one hour and don't find anything suitable for me (95% is closed).
>>>>
>>>> Tell me, how you search for a bug to fix?
>>>>
>>>
>>> It might be more productive for you to engage with engineers within the
>>> specific area of JDK you are interested in (via appropriate mailing list)
>>> to see what suggestions they have for things to work on.
>>>
>>> David
>>>
>>>  Konstantin.
>>>>
>>>>
>>
>