So you want to be a future JDK 8u contributor...

[Martijn Verburg]

Great!  JClarity will do some digging to see if there are some small issues
we can get started with.  I assume it’s still the policy of fix in jdk/jdk
first and discuss/show a separate backport issue/patch here?


Cheers,
Martijn

On Wed, 14 Nov 2018 at 06:44, Hohensee, Paul <hohensee at amazon.com> wrote:

> +1, Andrew. I'm already in for jdk8u support, and would be happy to
> sponsor others.
>
> Paul
>
> On 11/12/18, 6:45 PM, "jdk8u-dev on behalf of Andrew Haley" <
> jdk8u-dev-bounces at openjdk.java.net on behalf of aph at redhat.com> wrote:
>
>     Several people have contacted me recently to talk about working on the
>     future jdk8u project after Oracle relinquishes their leadership. I'm
>     very encouraged by this: if we do it right it'll be an excellent
>     example of an Open Source project. As much as possible I'd like to see
>     the project run in an open and transparent way.
>
>     However, I will say that if you want to contribute, please don't wait
>     until that time. We -- the community -- will be very busy taking over
>     the project and won't have much bandwidth to sponsor your patches if
>     you don't have commit access.
>
>     So, it would be an excellent idea to get involved with OpenJDK now. If
>     you're already a jdk8u committer or reviewer, that's fine. If you're
>     already an OpenJDK but not jdk8u committer, great: get someone to
>     propose you as a jdk8u committer. If you're not an OpenJDK committer
>     at all, this would be a good time to submit some patches and get
>     committer status.
>
>     Above all, thank you in advance to everyone who'll be working on
>     jdk8u. I think we can make a real success of this, for a long time to
>     come.
>
>     --
>     Andrew Haley
>     Java Platform Lead Engineer
>     Red Hat UK Ltd. <https://www.redhat.com>
>     EAC8 43EB D3EF DB98 CC77 2FAD A5CD 6035 332F A671
>
>
> --
Cheers, Martijn (Sent from Gmail Mobile)