about OpenJDK 8 MIPS Port by Loongson and some questions

[dalibor topic]

On 14.11.2016 12:07, Ao Qi wrote:
> So far, Loongson has signed the OCA and Lemote has submitted its OCA.
> All of the contributions we want to upstream were done by these two
> companies. So my understanding is that after the Lemote’s OCA is
> processed, the code of this OpenJDK 8 MIPS Port would meet the
> requirement of OCA. Am I right? If yes, what should I do next?

Unfortunately, Lemote does not appear on 
http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/community/oca-486395.html so if they 
have submitted an OCA, it has not been processed yet. As discussed on 
http://openjdk.java.net/contribute/, one should allow at least two weeks 
for processing.

Since your e-mail is now more than two weeks old, my suggestion would be 
to check with the submitter off-list if, when and where they have made a 
submission. They can also contact me off-list, if necessary.

Until all the contributors have a processed OCA on file, it's not going 
to be possible to proceed with the contribution.

> Loongson’s contribution has not been accepted by OpenJDK yet, so the
> contribution of Loongson and me is zero in fact. Although I did a lot of
> work about MIPS port, and had communication with Porters Group and MIPS
> Project from years ago, I am not sure if I am eligible for membership in
> Porters Group and being nominated to be a Group Member.

Per http://openjdk.java.net/groups/#group-member

"As a rough guide, a Contributor should be regularly active in a Group 
or its sponsored Projects for at least a year before being nominated to 
be a Group Member."

We did a first round of new Group Member nominations earlier this year: 
http://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/porters-dev/2016-May/000545.html 
. The next round of Group Member nominations I'd like to initiate would 
be the Project Leads of the Projects sponsored by this Group that were 
active during every month of last year.

> If I want to do
> some contribution to the Porters Group, I think I have to find some
> other project, because Loongson’s code cannot be accepted yet and MIPS
> Project has no repository now.

Yeah, that seems like it would be a good start in the interim.

cheers,
dalibor tpic

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