[threeten-dev] Threeten repo is open for M7

[Michael Nascimento]

I share Stephen's pain. My time is quite limited these days, so
sometimes I would do something and there was a major refactoring. Now
I am pursuing small changes and things should be moving on, but
everything got moved to java.time and I have to build OpenJDK, which
is a very painful process on Windows - and doesn't work at all.

The current process is hindering contributions, when we have to spend
tons of time just trying to catch up with changes in the build
infrastructure instead of just writing code.

Regarding webrev, I really think that if committers were allowed to
create branches in the the format person-feature so they could push
their changes there and everyone could simply diff against it, it
would be way simpler. Once approved, we'd merge it into trunk.

I am still trying to comply with the process, but because of that, I
haven't been able to produce working code since we moved to OpenJDK.

Regards,
Michael

On Thu, Jan 24, 2013 at 8:38 AM, Richard Warburton
<richard.warburton at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> Frankly, I don't have time for this rubbish. If you want me to write
>> code, then thats what I need to be doing. The OpenJDK build system
>> simply isn't good enough for non-Oracle / Windows people like me to
>> use.
>>
>
> Hey Stephen - we've had quite a few people have issues with this.  There
> are adopt-openjdk instructions [0], which are more detailed than the
> official ones, and I've heard they work well if you're using Windows 7.
> There's certainly help available at
> https://groups.google.com/forum/?fromgroups#!forum/adopt-openjdk for people
> building openjdk, which is a lot friendlier/help oriented than on the
> official mailing lists.
>
> I did a build on my laptop last night and I've found build-infra to work
> very effectively if you're using the latest ubuntu, so it might be worth
> just trying to use that in a virtual machine.  When running openjdk
> hackdays we usually build ubuntu VMs because it results in /far/ less
> issues than people trying to use OS X or Windows.
>
> regards,
>
>   Richard Warburton
>
>   http://insightfullogic.com
>   @RichardWarburto <http://twitter.com/richardwarburto>
>
> [0] http://java.net/projects/adoptopenjdk/pages/BuildWindows