Call for Discussion: New Project: Developer's Guide
Jesper Wilhelmsson
jesper.wilhelmsson at oracle.com
Mon Mar 16 17:44:25 UTC 2020
> On 16 Mar 2020, at 18:38, Jiva, Azeem <javajiva at amazon.com> wrote:
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> Jesper,
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> Amazon is willing to help with a hotspot debug guide as well as participating in hotspot related documentation.
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Thank you for your support Azeem!
/Jesper
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> Hi.
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> I would like to discuss the possible creation of the Developer's Guide Project
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> with myself, Jesper Wilhelmsson, as the lead and the Core-Libs, Compiler, and
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> Hotspot groups as the sponsoring Groups.
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> The initial goal of the project would be to create up-to-date guidelines for
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> OpenJDK development and contributions. The intent is to update the existing
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> OpenJDK Developer's Guide [1] which hasn't been updated since 2012. Parts of
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> the existing guide are in need of updates while other parts are yet to be
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> written. The initial source code for this project will be based on the current
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> OpenJDK Developer's Guide.
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> In more recent years some process related information has been published on the
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> OpenJDK wiki [2], but this information was never reviewed or approved by the
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> community. Even though large parts of this information may be accurate, it needs
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> to go through proper review before it can be seen as official guidelines for
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> OpenJDK development.
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> Once the initial goal has been reached the project will transition into a
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> maintenance project to keep the OpenJDK Developer's Guide up to date.
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> The OpenJDK Developer's Guide is intended to contain tutorial style texts that
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> give examples and step-by-step directions for common parts of the development
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> process. Strict rules for OpenJDK development are better suited to a process
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> JEP. The development of such a JEP is outside of the scope of this project but
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> will be developed as part of a separate effort in parallel.
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> Initial committers of the Developer's Guide Project include Mark Reinhold, Iris
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> Clark, and Jesper Wilhelmsson. Additional committers may be identified through
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> this discussion.
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> The project will host at least one mailing list, guide-dev at openjdk.java.net<https://mail.openjdk.java.net/mailman/listinfo/discuss>,
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> for discussions and reviews of changes.
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> Thanks,
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> /Jesper
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> [1] http://openjdk.java.net/guide/
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> [2] https://wiki.openjdk.java.net/
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> --
> Azeem Jiva
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