JDK 8 Warnings Cleanup Day -- Dec. 1st, 2011

[Xiomara Jayasena]

> 
> A few questions:
> 
> 1.  Is this the JDK as in just the jdk repository or are we also
> including the Java code in CORBA and HotSpot here? (langtools is
> already clean IIRC)

We are including java code warnings under the JDK8 forest, which includes langtools, hotspot, etc. (http://hg.openjdk.java.net/).

> 
> 2.  As has already been noted, the timing leaves something to be
> desired and it would be good to have more notice of future such events,
> so that the community as a whole can participate and not just those
> employed by Oracle.  With regard to this event, I assume we can work on
> this prior to 8am PT on Thursday as that translates to around close-of-
> business (4pm GMT, 5pm CET and so on) in Europe (see
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Central_European_Time)?

8am PT is the deadline for you guys to figure out what files you would like to work on and let us know that by replying to jdk8-dev alias so that there are no overlaps in the work.  Other than that, those times are just a guideline for people to all work together so that reviews and builds and tests can happen around the same time which will hopefully make them faster.

You guys are welcome to send in the files that you would like to work on earlier than the times above and you can get a head start on fixing them.  You are also welcome to continue fixing warnings beyond the warnings day.  It would be nice however, to get a count of how many warnings are fixed on that day.

-Xiomara



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