Call for Discussion: New Project: Developer's Guide

[Jesper Wilhelmsson]

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/