JDK-8273642: The UUID class does not implement RFC4122 fully (UUID type 5 is missing).

[Mario Pavlov]

Hi Aleksey,
Thanks for your answer.
In that case maybe I should start with something even smaller, e.g.
https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8192784
What do you think?

Cheers,
Mario

On Thu, Nov 11, 2021 at 7:00 PM Aleksey Shipilev <shade at redhat.com> wrote:

> On 11/11/21 5:33 PM, Mario Pavlov wrote:
> > What are the next steps? Should I get approval to work on this?
>
> AFAIU, the nature of this work implies extending the UUID spec a little,
> since we would need to
> mention Version 5 somewhere, which would require submitting the CSR [1]
> and working through it. This
> would require JIRA access privileges that are not granted to first-time
> contributors. I would
> suggest to do something that does not require API tweaks first, to get the
> taste of JDK development.
>
> Otherwise, if you have anyone who can help you with CSR, I would say the
> next step would be doing a
> PR against mainline that implements the feature.
>
> --
> Thanks,
> -Aleksey
>
> [1] https://wiki.openjdk.java.net/display/csr/Main
>
>