OpenJDK adoption by Java User Groups

[Stephen McConnell]

Does anyone have a link to the Sonar page?

Cheers, Steve.

-----Original Message----- 
From: Jonathan Gibbons 
Sent: Saturday, December 10, 2011 1:22 AM 
To: jdk8-dev at openjdk.java.net 
Subject: Re: OpenJDK adoption by Java User Groups 

Metrics are good, especially when you can see trend towards a realistic 
goal  ;-)

-- Jon

On 12/09/2011 06:48 AM, Stephen McConnell wrote:
> If Sonar is in place - then chances are we could enable a 'Technical 
> Debt' metric.
> That would be interesting.
>
> Cheers, Steve.
>
> -----Original Message----- From: Alan Bateman
> Sent: Saturday, December 10, 2011 1:14 AM
> To: Martijn Verburg
> Cc: jdk8-dev at openjdk.java.net
> Subject: Re: OpenJDK adoption by Java User Groups
>
> On 09/12/2011 10:16, Martijn Verburg wrote:
>> To add further to this, please send myself or Mike Barker any ideas 
>> you'd
>> like to see tackled and we'll get them added to the list.
>>
> There is an almost endless list of things that could be done. Along the
> lines of the warnings clean-up, then sorting through the output of
> FindBugs and other static analysis tools could lead to some useful
> patches and fun discussions. You probably saw the mail from Evgeny
> Mandrikov a few weeks ago where he announced a Sonar dashboard for the
> jdk7 sources. There's a lot of noise in there but it may be useful to
> identify some useful clean-ups (just need to watch the risk/benefit
> trade-off). And of course the tests. In the past we haven't given the
> tests enough TLC so patches to improve the reliability or performance of
> tests are very welcome. There are lots of specific things that could be
> done too but the nice thing about the clean-up areas is that they
> implement Spliterable.
>
> -Alan.