hello, im a new contributor

[Vincent Ryan]

That all sounds fine. Let me know when your patch is ready to submit.
Thanks.


> On 1 Sep 2017, at 13:15, Philipp Kunz <philipp.kunz at paratix.ch> wrote:
> 
> Hello Vincent
> 
> Thank you for sponsoring!
> So far, I have become a contributor by signing the OCA which has been accepted. Dalibor Topic wrote that he can confirm and it's also here: http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/community/oca-486395.html#p <http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/community/oca-486395.html#p> -> Paratix GmbH
> Therefore I think I have followed the steps in http://openjdk.java.net/contribute/ <http://openjdk.java.net/contribute/> at least the ones before actual patch submission.
> 
> Currently, I'm working on getting the existing test cases running locally. Unfortunately, I started with jdk 9 and switched to 10 now. I figured these commands run at least the relevant tests with 9 and hope this also applies to 10:
> make run-test-tier1
> make run-test TEST="jdk/test"
> they report errors and failures but it hasn't been completed and released which might explain it. If I run the tests I assume relevant for my patch
> make run-test TEST="jtreg:jdk/test/sun/security/tools/jarsigner jtreg:jdk/test/java/util/jar"
> then it reports zero errors and failures which may be a good starting point.
> Do you think that sounds reasonable or do you have another suggestion how to run the tests?
> 
> Next, I will add a test for JDK-6695402 before actually fixing it. As an example, I'll try something in the style of http://hg.openjdk.java.net/jdk9/dev/jdk/file/65464a307408/test/java/util/jar/Manifest/CreateManifest.java <http://hg.openjdk.java.net/jdk9/dev/jdk/file/65464a307408/test/java/util/jar/Manifest/CreateManifest.java>. This way, I try to demonstrate the improvement.
> 
> I guess I have identified the following line as the cause: value = new String(vb, 0, 0, vb.length);
> http://hg.openjdk.java.net/jdk9/jdk9/jdk/file/51f5d60713b5/src/java.base/share/classes/java/util/jar/Manifest.java#l157 <http://hg.openjdk.java.net/jdk9/jdk9/jdk/file/51f5d60713b5/src/java.base/share/classes/java/util/jar/Manifest.java#l157>
> So I'll try to remove it first including the whole four line if block.
> 
> Philipp
> 
> 
> On 01.09.2017 10:00, Vincent Ryan wrote:
>> Hello Philipp,
>> 
>> I’m happy to sponsor your fix for JDK 10. Have you followed these steps: http://openjdk.java.net/contribute/ <http://openjdk.java.net/contribute/> ?
>> 
>> Thanks.
>> 
>> 
>>> On 1 Sep 2017, at 08:58, Vincent Ryan <vincent.x.ryan at oracle.com <mailto:vincent.x.ryan at oracle.com>> wrote:
>>> 
>>> Moved to security-dev
>>> 
>>> 
>>>> On 1 Sep 2017, at 08:28, Philipp Kunz <philipp.kunz at paratix.ch <mailto:philipp.kunz at paratix.ch>> wrote:
>>>> 
>>>> Hello everyone
>>>> 
>>>> I have been developing with Java for around 17 years now and when I encountered some bug I decided to attempt to fix it: https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-6695402 <https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-6695402>. This also looks like it may not be too big a piece for a first contribution.
>>>> 
>>>> I read through quite some guides and all kinds of documents but could not yet help myself with the following questions:
>>>> 
>>>> May I login to jira to add comments to bugs? If so, how would I request or receive credentials? Or are mailing lists preferred?
>>>> 
>>>> Another question is whether I should apply it to jdk9, but it may be too late now, or to jdk10, and backporting can be considered later. Probably it wouldn't even make much a difference for the patch itself.
>>>> 
>>>> One more question I have is how or where to find the sources from before migration to mercurial. Because some lines of code I intend to change go back farther and in the history I find only 'initial commit'. With such a history I might be able better to understand why it's there and prevent to make the same mistake again.
>>>> 
>>>> I guess the appropriate mailing list for above mentioned bug is security-dev. Is it correct that I can send a patch there and just hope for some sponsor to pick it up? Of course I'd be glad if some sponsor would contact me and maybe provide some assistance or if someone would confirm that sending a patch to the mailing list is the right way to find a sponsor.
>>>> 
>>>> Philipp Kunz
>>> 
>> 
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