Producing community binaries for OpenJDK

[Mike Burton]

Hi Tim,

I really like the sound of this, and moving your repos into https://github.com/adoptopenjdk would be great. Just checked and I dont have write perm on it but other AdoptOpenJDK folk do.

Best Regards

Mike Burton



> On 10 Mar 2017, at 12:26, Tim Ellison <t.p.ellison at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> On 09/03/17 17:43, Ben Evans wrote:
>> This sounds good to me - and I think it's the kind of thing that Adopt
>> would very much be interested in.
> 
> That's good to hear.
> 
>> I'm looping in adoption-discuss, AdoptOpenJDK and Martijn, as I'm not
>> sure how many other folk are reading openjdk-binary.
> 
> I'm happy to narrow it down to whatever list(s) are the most appropriate
> once there is consensus on a home for this.
> 
>> Adoption folk - what do we think? Does this fit under the existing structure?
>> 
>> Tim - assuming that it does, what practical things can AdoptOpenJDK do
>> to help you?
> 
> Not much at this stage, just a friendly place to talk about such stuff,
> and agreement on a natural place to put the work in progress.  Being
> able to move our repos into the AdoptOpenJDK org [1] would be nice.
> 
> [1] https://github.com/adoptopenjdk
> 
> Regards,
> Tim
> 
>> Thanks,
>> 
>> Ben
>> 
>> On Thu, Mar 9, 2017 at 4:15 PM, Tim Ellison <Tim_Ellison at uk.ibm.com> wrote:
>>> I've now got some cycles for actually doing some build work around OpenJDK.
>>> There are a couple of colleagues here at IBM who can also contribute to the
>>> build process.
>>> 
>>> It seems that the closest starting point for community build/test is the
>>> fine work that was done as part of the Adopt OpenJDK project; though it
>>> looks like that has been quiet for a while?
>>> 
>>> So we have started "from scratch" this week and are writing some build
>>> scripts we'd like to move into the open and share with folks.  It will start
>>> simple, building Linux x86_64 and rolling out to Mac, PPC, and Windows.
>>> Likewise starting with some JTReg testing, and building that out to more
>>> meaningful tests.  We like Git, so it's currently housed in a private Git
>>> repo.
>>> 
>>> The goal is to have a continuous integration system pulling from OpenJDK and
>>> producing community binaries that are built using a fully open build system,
>>> so everyone can validate how it was created, and the dependencies and
>>> patches that it includes, etc.  Of course, the idea is that changes that are
>>> relevant to OpenJDK source end up back there; but there will always be build
>>> specific-files, and point-in-time patches required to produce a working
>>> binary.
>>> 
>>> If there is enough flexibility at the Adopt OpenJDK project, I'd prefer to
>>> push the code there and continue working under that organization; but
>>> understand if that project would prefer we set up our own space elsewhere.
>>> 
>>> Just to be clear, I'm not proposing to open up IBM's Java build system
>>> (believe me, you wouldn't want to have that!); it's much simpler than that
>>> -- just a CI clone/build/test/publish cycle, and then see where things go
>>> from there.
>>> 
>>> Thoughts?
>>> Tim
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