[threeten-dev] Threeten repo is open for M7

[Stephen Colebourne]

On 24 January 2013 10:38, 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.

The Adopt a JDK Windows instructions are good, although they could do
with a little more about "why" the step is needed.

Apparantly, re-pulling means running configure again. Not something
that is clear anywhere.


On 24 January 2013 10:52, Michael Nascimento <misterm at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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.

OpenJDK contributing is like being in the stone age compared to what
I'm used to with git and GitHub.

Stephen