How to contribute after the move to GitHub?

[Severin Gehwolf]

Hi Christoph,

On Fri, 2020-10-02 at 17:20 +0200, Christoph Dreis wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> after the move to GitHub I’m unsure how to contribute to the OpenJDK exactly.
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> I’ve contributed before and I’m also familiar with GitHub, so that’s not that big of a topic, but the JDK specific flow isn't yet entirely clear to me - if there's any.
> The contributing sections[1] don’t seem to be updated (yet).
> 
> Should one still discuss a potential change upfront via the respective mailing lists or is it okay to open a PR directly – even without a tracked bug yet - which is then the center of the discussion?
> Given that I'm not a committer I'm also not sure how the sponsoring process has potentially changed.
> 
> Any clarification is highly appreciated.

This post to jdk-dev might be helpful:
http://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/jdk-dev/2020-September/004694.html

Particularly this:
https://wiki.openjdk.java.net/display/SKARA/#Skara-GettingStarted

HTH.

Thanks,
Severin

> [1] - https://openjdk.java.net/contribute/
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