Call for Discussion: New Project: Developer's Guide

[Vladimir Kozlov]

Finally we can collect information spread all over internet in one place!
The HotSpot group will gladly participate in sponsoring this project.

Regards,
Vladimir Kozlov

On 3/11/20 4:51 PM, Jesper Wilhelmsson 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/
>