JDK submit repo

[David Holmes]

On 24/01/2018 8:04 PM, dalibor topic wrote:
> On 23.01.2018 21:33, mark.reinhold at oracle.com wrote:
>> If you push a branch whose name starts with "JDK-" into this repo
>> then it will automatically be built and tested on Oracle's internal
>> build system, and a summary of the results will be e-mailed back to
>> you.  This typically takes a couple of hours.  If one or more tests
>> fail then you can contact an Oracle engineer to get more information
>> about the failures.
> 
> Since the wiki
> 
> * doesn't say how to contact that engineer
> * doesn't say how to work with them
> 
> that might be a hurdle too steep in some cases.
> 
> As the only contact given on the wiki is ops at openjdk, I assume it will 
> get more than its fair share of test failures to forward through email 
> chains in search of that engineer. That would be unfortunate.
> 
> Instead, I would suggest explicitly advising Comitters with test 
> failures to forward them to the jdk-dev mailing list in search of an 
> Oracle engineer.

I would not advise that as not all engineers hang out on jdk-dev. Rather 
they should forward to xxx-dev where xxx relates to the component on 
which they were working: hotspot-dev, hotspot-runtime-dev, 
core-libs-dev, net-dev etc

> Or, ideally, the system could simply send those e-mails announcing 
> failures to the Committer with a CC: to jdk-dev, taking out the manual 
> part of Oracle engineer search and forwarding e-mails around out of the 
> process.

Please no! :)

The way I see this working is as follows:

- contributor works on a fix and gets it working locally on whatever 
systems they have available to them
- contributor then wants to test further and so submits to submit repo
- contributor gets response email:
a) all good: contributor sends RFR to xxx-dev
b) not all good: contributor sends prelim-RFR to xxx-dev and includes 
failure info, and waits for help on the failures

Cheers,
David
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> cheers,
> dalibor topic
>