CFV: New Project: Skara

[Maurizio Cimadamore]

Vote: yes!

Maurizio


On 29/08/18 18:58, joe darcy wrote:
> I hereby propose the creation of the Skara Project with Joe Darcy as 
> the Lead and the Build Group as the sponsoring Group.
>
> The source code management (SCM) system of a software project is a 
> fundamental piece of its infrastructure and workflows. Starting in 
> February 2008, the source code of different JDK releases and 
> supporting projects has been hosted in Mercurial repositories under 
> http://hg.openjdk.java.net/. Code reviews of JDK changes are typically 
> conducted as discussions in mailing lists over small patches sent to 
> one or more lists or over webrevs hosted on cr.openjdk.java.net. Since 
> 2008, many open source projects have successfully adopted more 
> efficient SCM and review tooling, in some cases provided by third 
> parties.
>
> In order to help OpenJDK contributors be more productive, both 
> seasoned committers and relative newcomers, the Skara project proposes 
> to investigate alternative SCM and code review options for the JDK 
> source code, including options based upon Git rather than Mercurial, 
> and including options hosted by third parties.
>
> The Skara project intends to build prototypes of hosting the JDK 12 
> sources under different providers.
>
> The evaluation criteria to consider include but are not limited to:
>
>     * Performance: time for clone operations from master repos, time 
> of local operations, etc.
>
>     * Space efficiency
>
>     * Usability in different geographies
>
>     * Support for common development environments such as Linux, Mac, 
> and Windows
>
>     * Able to easily host the entire history of the JDK and the 
> projected growth of its history over the next decade
>
>     * Support for general JDK code review practices
>
>     * Programmatic APIs to enable process assistance and automation of 
> review and processes
>
> If one or more prototypes indicate a different SCM arrangement offers 
> substantial improvements over the current situation, the Skara project 
> will shepherd a JEP to change the SCM for the JDK.
>
> Skara previously had a call for discussion 
> (http://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/discuss/2018-July/004801.html) 
> and was a topic at the OpenJDK Committers’ Workshop 
> (http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~darcy/Presentations/ocw-2018-08-01-skara.pdf). 
> A range of passionate opinions were expressed regarding the choice of 
> SCM for the JDK, but the prototype imports of the JDK sources to 
> hosting providers:
>
>     https://github.com/Project-Skara/jdk.git
>     https://gitlab.com/jddarcy/jdk.git
>
> have demonstrated much shorter clone times, on the order of one to 
> three minutes as compared to fifteen minutes to over a half hour from 
> hg.openjdk.java.net.
>
> The envisioned future iterations of prototypes could explore how to 
> adapt JDK development practices to better conform to conventions on 
> different SCMs. For example, some syntax changes in JDK commit 
> messages would work more naturally with git tooling. Such prototypes 
> would be published and made available for comment.
>
> Joe is  a reviewer in the JDK project, the lead of the CSR 
> (Compatibility & Specification Review) group 
> (http://openjdk.java.net/groups/csr/), previous lead of Project Coin 
> (http://openjdk.java.net/projects/coin/), initial moderator and 
> inaugural release manager for OpenJDK 6, and was the lead for JEP 296: 
> Consolidate the JDK Forest into a Single Repository 
> (http://openjdk.java.net/jeps/296).
>
> Initial reviewers are Tim Bell (tbell), Joe Darcy (darcy), Erik 
> Duveblad (ehelin), Erik Joelsson (erikj), Mark Reinhold (mr), Tony 
> Squier (squierts), Tiep Vo (tiep), and Robin Westberg (rwestberg).
>
> Votes are due by September 12, 11 am Pacific Time.
>
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>
> For Lazy Consensus voting instructions, see [2].
>
> -Joe Darcy
>
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>