CFV: New Project: Developer's Guide

Geo george45312 at gmail.com
Mon Mar 30 23:42:59 UTC 2020


yes

Best regards, 
George Siciaridis

> On Mar 30, 2020, at 7:34 PM, David Holmes <david.holmes at oracle.com> wrote:
> 
> Vote: yes
> 
> David
> 
>> On 31/03/2020 7:35 am, Jesper Wilhelmsson wrote:
>> I hereby propose the creation of the Developer's Guide Project with myself,
>> Jesper Wilhelmsson, as the lead and the Core Libraries, Compiler, and HotSpot
>> Groups as the sponsoring Groups.
>> The suggested project has been out for discussion on discuss at openjdk.java.net
>> for two weeks [1]. It was well-received and I haven't noted any concerns with
>> creating the project in that discussion.
>> 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 [2] 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 [3], 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.
>> I (Jesper Wilhelmsson) am part of the Java Platform Group at Oracle and have
>> been working with virtual machine development since 2001. My initial focus was
>> on memory management and garbage collection but over the last few years I've
>> been more involved in gatekeeping and process questions around the OpenJDK.
>> I authored several of the guides available on the OpenJDK HotSpot wiki and I
>> regularly give talks on how to contribute to the OpenJDK.
>> Initial committers of the Developer's Guide Project include Mark Reinhold (mr),
>> Iris Clark (iris), and Jesper Wilhelmsson (jwilhelm). A complete list will be
>> provided to the registrar at the successful conclusion of this CFV.
>> The project will host at least one mailing list, guide-dev at openjdk.java.net,
>> for discussions and reviews of changes.
>> Votes are due by 5pm PDT on Tuesday April 14 2020.
>> Only current OpenJDK Members [4] are eligible to vote on this motion.
>> Votes must be cast in the open on the discuss list. Replying to this message
>> is sufficient if your mail program honors the Reply-To header.
>> For Lazy Consensus voting instructions, see [5].
>> Thanks,
>> /Jesper
>> [1] https://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/discuss/2020-March/005298.html
>> [2] http://openjdk.java.net/guide/
>> [3] https://wiki.openjdk.java.net/
>> [4] http://openjdk.java.net/census#members
>> [5] http://openjdk.java.net/projects/#new-project-vote


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