JDK submit repo

[Martijn Verburg]

The adoption group has a spreadsheet of code areas mapped to mailing
lists.  Happy to put this data where best for folks, let me know!

On Thu, 25 Jan 2018 at 05:18, <mark.reinhold at oracle.com> wrote:

> 2018/1/24 2:04:46 -0800, dalibor.topic at oracle.com:
> > 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.
>
> Yes.
>
> > 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.
>
> Please, no.  Asking jdk-dev should be the option of last resort.  If
> you're working on a fix for something then you've hopefully already
> discussed it on the appropriate list.  I agree that we should make it
> easier for newcomers to figure out which list to go to, but spamming
> jdk-dev is not the answer.
>
> - Mark
>
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Cheers, Martijn (Sent from Gmail Mobile)