Summary: JDK8 Warnings Cleanup Day

[Jonathan Gibbons]

Wow, most impressive!

-- Jon

On 12/08/2011 08:12 PM, Xiomara Jayasena wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Last week we held [1] the first (of hopefully several!) JDK8 Warnings Cleanup Days (WCD), where the OpenJDK community collaborated to reduce the number of warnings in the JDK8 source. 
>
> We started with just over 10,000 warnings before WCD. The checked-in changesets fixed a total of *1,498 * warnings, leaving 8,515.
>
> The pending changesets (with webrevs) would fix and additional 674 warnings, giving a grand total of *2,172* warning fixed, bringing us down to 7,841 overall.  Great job to everyone who participated!!
>
> If you would like to see the further breakdown of the changes, you can go to the warnings cleanup wiki [2] and see them there.
>
> We learned a lot from this first experience and appreciated how quickly the community responded to our request for help even with such short notice.
>
> Thanks again!
> -Xiomara
>
> [1] http://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/jdk8-dev/2011-November/000302.html
> [2] http://wikis.sun.com/display/OpenJDK/JDK8+warning+cleanup+day+%282011-12-01%29