Call for Discussion: New Project: Developer's Guide

[Timmy Jose]

Hey Jesper,

That sounds good. Will do! :-)

Cheers,

Timmy

On Wed, 1 Apr, 2020, 10:13 PM Jesper Wilhelmsson, <
jesper.wilhelmsson at oracle.com> wrote:

> Hi Timmy.
>
> To be part of the project just join the guide-dev email list once it has
> been created :-)
> Looking forward to see you there!
> /Jesper
>
> On 1 Apr 2020, at 08:33, Timmy Jose <zoltan.jose at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> I think that this is a brilliant idea. The existing developer guide is
> indeed very outdated, and an up-to-date, easy-to-locate guide is definitely
> required. It would make things so much easier for people new to the process
> such as myself. If possible, I would also like to be part of this
> initiative - maybe it would also help
> me get onboarded myself.
>
> Best,
>
> Timmy
>
> On Tue, Mar 31, 2020 at 5:01 AM Jesper Wilhelmsson <
> jesper.wilhelmsson at oracle.com> wrote:
>
>> Hi Mohammed.
>>
>> I'm happy to hear that you are interested in this project. The next step
>> is the vote that has been initiated now. All Members of the OpenJDK have a
>> vote and if they approve to creating the project it will be created. Once
>> the project is in place we can start discussing the future.
>>
>> Thanks,
>> /Jesper
>>
>> > On 29 Mar 2020, at 11:43, Mohammed Al-Moayed <mohammed.moayed at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>> >
>> > Hi All
>> >
>> > I am interested to be part of this.
>> >
>> > Please, let me know next steps
>> >
>> > Regards
>> > Mohammed Almo
>> >
>> >> On Mar 12, 2020, at 2:51 AM, Jesper Wilhelmsson <
>> jesper.wilhelmsson at oracle.com> wrote:
>> >>
>> >> Hi.
>> >>
>> >> I would like to discuss the possible creation of the Developer's Guide
>> Project
>> >> with myself, Jesper Wilhelmsson, as the lead and the Core-Libs,
>> Compiler, and
>> >> Hotspot groups as the sponsoring Groups.
>> >>
>> >> The initial goal of the project would be to create up-to-date
>> guidelines for
>> >> OpenJDK development and contributions. The intent is to update the
>> existing
>> >> OpenJDK Developer's Guide [1] which hasn't been updated since 2012.
>> Parts of
>> >> the existing guide are in need of updates while other parts are yet to
>> be
>> >> written. The initial source code for this project will be based on the
>> current
>> >> OpenJDK Developer's Guide.
>> >>
>> >> In more recent years some process related information has been
>> published on the
>> >> OpenJDK wiki [2], but this information was never reviewed or approved
>> by the
>> >> community. Even though large parts of this information may be
>> accurate, it needs
>> >> to go through proper review before it can be seen as official
>> guidelines for
>> >> OpenJDK development.
>> >>
>> >> Once the initial goal has been reached the project will transition
>> into a
>> >> maintenance project to keep the OpenJDK Developer's Guide up to date.
>> >>
>> >> The OpenJDK Developer's Guide is intended to contain tutorial style
>> texts that
>> >> give examples and step-by-step directions for common parts of the
>> development
>> >> process. Strict rules for OpenJDK development are better suited to a
>> process
>> >> JEP. The development of such a JEP is outside of the scope of this
>> project but
>> >> will be developed as part of a separate effort in parallel.
>> >>
>> >> Initial committers of the Developer's Guide Project include Mark
>> Reinhold, Iris
>> >> Clark, and Jesper Wilhelmsson. Additional committers may be identified
>> through
>> >> this discussion.
>> >>
>> >> The project will host at least one mailing list,
>> guide-dev at openjdk.java.net,
>> >> for discussions and reviews of changes.
>> >>
>> >> Thanks,
>> >> /Jesper
>> >>
>> >> [1] http://openjdk.java.net/guide/
>> >> [2] https://wiki.openjdk.java.net/
>> >>
>>
>>
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