Group Proposal, for discussion: IDE & Tooling support

Maurizio Cimadamore maurizio.cimadamore at oracle.com
Fri Mar 1 18:12:11 UTC 2019


On 01/03/2019 18:05, Jonathan Gibbons wrote:
> Maurizio,
>
> Sounds good to me.
>
> I presume this will subsume the curiously-named "NetBeans Project" 
> Group, that never quite gained any traction.

Yep - that happens to have a bit of a confusing name, as it's a Group 
with the P-word in it; this new group will eventually subsume the other 
(which will be garbage collected at some point).

Maurizio

>
> -- Jon
>
>
> On 03/01/2019 08:28 AM, Maurizio Cimadamore wrote:
>> (This is not a call for votes; it is just a call for discussion.)
>>
>> At the last OpenJDK Committer Workshop in Brussels, we agreed to set 
>> up some channel in which to discuss issues related to OpenJDK 
>> tooling, and, more specifically IDE support. We already have pretty 
>> comprehensive support for OpenJDK development in both IntelliJ and 
>> Netbeans, but the main, long standing problem has been one of lack of 
>> adequate communication and coordination between these various 
>> efforts, which often led (frustrated) developers to the path of "I'll 
>> write my own support".
>>
>> The goal of this group is, first and foremost, to extensively 
>> document the alternatives that are already available at present, as 
>> well as to capture discussions related to tooling support which are 
>> currently scattered among many mailing list (compiler-dev, jtreg-dev, 
>> build-dev). After some internal discussions, it feels like proposing 
>> a group is the right thing to do because: (i) a group automatically 
>> gets a mailing list and a page on openjdk.java.net - which can be 
>> useful for communicating within the group and also for publishing the 
>> much needed documentation; also (ii) a group is not tied to any 
>> specific set of deliverables (unlike, say, an OpenJDK project), which 
>> feels right in this case, as IDE support is likely to be a recurring 
>> activity.
>>
>> We want OpenJDK to be a welcoming place for developers, and I feel 
>> that improving IDE/tooling support plays a crucial role in reducing 
>> the activation energy required to start hacking on the OpenJDK codebase.
>>
>> Thoughts?
>>
>> Cheers
>> Maurizio
>>
>>
>


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