introduction and some questions

[Ben Evans]

Hi Logan,

Welcome to OpenJDK. One thing we recommend is that new developers
coming from the community can contact the Adoption Group
(http://openjdk.java.net/groups/adoption/), where we can provide more
targetted help.

In general, OpenJDK tends to be a bit more of an "earn your stripes"
community than some others you may have participated in - and that's
partly tied up with the release cycle of major versions.

You've joined at a bit of an odd time, as the rampdown process for 9
is already well underway - so all the committers are very busy &
there's not a lot of scope to get new changes in.

However, I would still subscribe to kulla-dev (the group for jshell)
and explain the bug & your patch there, and see if it can be
classified as a bug of sufficient need to still make the initial SE 9
release (although, at a guess, I would say that's probably unlikely).

Thanks,

Ben


On Tue, Feb 28, 2017 at 11:35 AM, Logan O'Sullivan Bruns
<logan at gedanken.org> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I just signed the OCA and had a couple of questions on how to best get
> started. I'm a software engineer and have been working in the industry
> for a number of years. I currently work for LinkedIn. If you are
> curious about the specifics or where else I've worked you can find
> most of it here (still need to finish filling in all role descriptions
> at some point):
>
>   https://www.linkedin.com/in/loganbruns/
>
> I have a few areas of interest in the JDK but I also just want to make
> more of an effort, in general, to contribute back to tools I use and
> value. To this end I figured I'd start with some small bug
> fixes.
>
> For a start I've noticed that jshell in jdk9 doesn't currently work
> well within the shell mode of my beloved Emacs. A very minor change to
> the terminal handling fixes this and I have a patch for the change.
> (Which might the dwindling group of emacs lovers happy if it is
> addressed before jdk9 goes out.)
>
> For other projects I might find a bug or enhancement
> possibility. Fix and test it. File a bug mentioning that I also have a
> suggested fix. Then create a pull request referencing the bug.
>
> In this case, I've signed the OCA but I don't see a way to create a
> bug? There doesn't seem to be a way to create an account on the bug
> database? Where would be the best place to start?
>
> Thanks,
>   logan