Introduction

[Martijn Verburg]

Hi Jonathan,

Welcome to OpenJDK!  Since you're interested in helping out with that
particular feature I'd start with a couple of things:

1.) Havea look at http://openjdk.java.net/contribute/

2.) Make sure you're comfortable with building OpenJDK 9 from the latest
forest (jdk9)

3.) Make sure you're comfortable writing and running the tests (via jtreg).
Just create a new temp test for say the String class and see if you can run
it individually and part of a suite.

4.) I see you've contacted the mailing list (great!) - I think Stuart Marks
is the assigned person / lead for that piece so it might be worth
mentioning this on that mailing list and asking if he can respond and give
you a recommended place to start (i.e. What can help him)



Cheers,
Martijn

On 30 August 2016 at 02:06, Jonathan Bluett-Duncan <jbluettduncan at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> My name is Jonathan, and I just had my OCA processed earlier today.
>
> Dalibor Topic suggested that I post on this mailing list to introduce
> myself, so I thought that would be a rather sensible thing to do. :)
>
> I'm an undergraduate Computer Science student at the University of Surrey,
> UK, and I'm in the middle of doing my dissertation. I've been following the
> archives of core-libs-dev over the last few months due to my interest in
> Java 9, and I'm currently in a situation where my studies aren't actually
> going to take up much of my time, so I thought it would be fun to
> participate on OpenJDK on the side, particularly on JEP 269: Convenience
> Factory Methods for Collections <http://openjdk.java.net/jeps/269>, which
> is an area that interests me especially and which I believe I have the
> skills and knowledge to help out with.
>
> I already posted yesterday on core-libs-dev at openjdk.java.net expressing my
> interest on JEP 269, so if you have any advice for me with getting started
> on OpenJDK or this particular JEP, please let me know, I'd be more than
> happy to listen.
>
> I look forward to working with you all.
>
> Kind regards,
> Jonathan Bluett-Duncan
>