Workshop Discussion Proposals from Adoption Group / LJC

[Martijn Verburg]

Hi all,

I'm still wrangling schedules to try and get to the workshop but I thought
I'd share these anyhow.






















*AdoptOpenJDK Build Farm 1. We would like to discuss some small changes to
source control practices at OpenJDK to make life easier for builders of
OpenJDK. In particular we'd like to get agreement on specific release tags
so OpenJDK builders can match Oracle's OpenJDK quarterly and CPU releases.
2. The AdoptOpenJDK build farm infrastructure as code includes build
scripts, installers, container support, test scripts / suites and JCK
utilities (for those who are JCK signatories). How can we make this easier
either technically or process wise for folks so that all vendors / parties
can benefit from this shared resource? An ideal outcome here is that all
vendors can save time and effort on build and test of OpenJDK (no one
competes on build / farms) and end users have openly audited, consistent
OpenJDK binaries. 3. The AdoptOpenJDK build farm hosts are intended for use
by all vendors / interested parties (within reason).  How can we make this
easier either technically or process wise for folks? Some benefits include
being able to better support Java's WORA promise across more ports (AIX,
Zos, Arm 32/64, Win32, z390 et al) and to disseminate and test early
binaries of builds coming out of amber, valhalla etc. 1. The AdoptOpenJDK
build farm team would like to discuss OpenJDK (LTS) patch maintenance (once
public updates by Oracle cease for an LTS release). An ideal outcome would
be to have clear identification of security and stability patches so that
other OpenJDK vendors can back port for their own implementations.Adoption
Group 1. The Adoption Group has been going for awhile and has had some
success, but not the impact it would have liked.  We'd like to discuss the
outstanding barriers that developers wanting to contribute to OpenJDK face
today so that we can improve the number and velocity of newcomers to
OpenJDK. 2. We'd like to discuss the current state of Java 9+ adoption in
production and what changes OpenJDK may need to make in order to improve
that in order to reduce the length of time that the industry stays on Java
8.OpenJDK Roadmap 1. We'd like to discuss the OpenJDK strategic roadmap,
for example is Cloud / Container support the top priority for the next 6
releases?  It would be interesting to discuss how that Roadmap could be
visualised with JEP's fulfilling the various goals. 1. We'd like to discuss
the OpenJDK roadmap specifically around:1. Value Types and related work2.
Safer replacements for functionality in sun.misc.Unsafe 3. GPU support /
Support for ML specific hardware4. Java Packager5. FFI6. Improvements to
Jigsaw These topics in particular are 'future' items that various LJC
developers have stated are of most interest to their businesses. 1. We'd
like to discuss OpenJDK jdk8u maintenance once public updates by Oracle
cease. An ideal outcome would be to find maintainer(s) going forwards.*
Questions, comments etc all welcome.

Cheers,
Martijn