Submitting patches for problems found by static analysis

Martin Buchholz Martin.Buchholz at Sun.COM
Tue Jun 19 22:24:56 PDT 2007



Bill Pugh wrote:
> One of the problems is that static analysis just points me at the 
> source file, and it can often be exceptionally difficult for me as an 
> outsider to figure out who the responsible engineer is, or if an 
> appropriate OpenJDK project exists.

With a project as large as the JDK, it is often difficult
even for JDK engineers to identify the maintainers of a file.
The JDK could come with a program to map file names to maintainers.

Martin



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