CFV: New Group: IDE & Tooling Support

[Georges Saab]

Vote: yes

  /Georges

> On Nov 8, 2019, at 2:29 PM, mark.reinhold at oracle.com wrote:
> 
> On behalf of Maurizio Cimadamore I hereby propose creation of the
> "IDE & Tooling Support" Group, with Maurizio as the initial Lead.
> 
> Maurizio’s proposal:
> 
>  At the last OpenJDK Committer Workshop in Brussels, we agreed to set
>  up some channel in which to discuss issues related to OpenJDK tooling
>  and, more specifically, IDE support. We already have pretty
>  comprehensive support for OpenJDK development in both IntelliJ and
>  Netbeans, but the main, long standing problem has been one of lack of
>  adequate communication and coordination between these various efforts,
>  which often led (frustrated) developers to the path of "I'll write my
>  own support".
> 
>  The goal of this group is, first and foremost, to extensively document
>  the alternatives that are already available at present, as well as to
>  capture discussions related to tooling support which are currently
>  scattered among many mailing list (compiler-dev, jtreg-dev,
>  build-dev).  After some discussion [3], it feels like proposing a
>  group is the right thing to do because: (i) a group automatically gets
>  a mailing list and a page on openjdk.java.net -- which can be useful
>  for communicating within the group and also for publishing the much
>  needed documentation; also (ii) a group is not tied to any specific
>  set of deliverables (unlike, say, an OpenJDK Project), which feels
>  right in this case, as IDE support is likely to be a recurring
>  activity.
> 
>  We want the OpenJDK Community to be a welcoming place for developers,
>  and I feel that improving IDE/tooling support plays a crucial role in
>  reducing the activation energy required to start hacking on the JDK
>  codebase.
> 
>  I'm proposing to lead the Group given the extensive work I've done in
>  the area of improving the usability of various IDE products for JDK
>  development.  I've started this work 10 years ago by adding support
>  for a standalone project to work on langtools with the Netbeans IDE;
>  this work then continued when I created, together with Chris Hegarty,
>  a way to generate JDK-wide IntelliJ projects, given a set of JDK
>  modules the developer wants to work with. Finally, I've also behind
>  the effort to improve the support for jtreg inside the Intellij IDE.
> 
>  I propose the following list of initial members:
> 
>  Chris Hegarty (Oracle)
>  Jan Lahoda (Oracle)
>  Jonathan Gibbons (Oracle)
>  Robin Westberg (Oracle)
>  Magnus Ihse Bursie (Oracle)
> 
> Only current Governing Board Members[1] are eligible to vote on this
> motion.  Votes must be cast in the open by replying to this mailing
> list.
> 
> Votes are due by 23:00 UTC next Friday, 15 November.
> 
> For Simple Majority voting instructions, see [2].
> 
> My apologies for the long delay in forwarding this proposal.
> 
> - Mark
> 
> [1] http://openjdk.java.net/census#gb
> [2] http://openjdk.java.net/groups/#new-group-vote
> [3] https://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/discuss/2019-March/004983.html