Introduction

[Remi Forax]

Hi Johnathan,
After getting familiar with jtreg,
here is the umbrella bug for a lot of small enhancements that should be done to the immutable collections.
  https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8156070

Given that Stuart works currently on these bugs too, IMO to avoid collision, you should starts with bugs marked P5 or P4 that adds new tests, and then move to the bugs that add new methods.

regards,
Rémi

----- Mail original -----
> De: "Martijn Verburg" <martijnverburg at gmail.com>
> À: "Jonathan Bluett-Duncan" <jbluettduncan at gmail.com>
> Cc: "adoption-discuss at openjdk.java.net" <discuss at openjdk.java.net>
> Envoyé: Mardi 30 Août 2016 16:48:30
> Objet: Re: Introduction

> 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