Idea from today's JCP EC call

[Martijn Verburg]

Hi Ben,

Great idea and I think those two searches would be a great start.
Can't think of many other repositories that would count (BitBucket?).
Cheers,
Martijn


On 14 March 2017 at 18:26, Mani Sarkar <sadhak001 at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi Ben,
>
> Great idea.
>
> From a tech point of view how would you want to scan these - a cron job that
> wakes up every few hours and lists all the repos/projects and new ones since
> the last run ?
>
> Also what is the plan for non-github repositories.
>
> Cheers,
> Mani
> Ps: feel free to pm me if necessary
>
>
> On Tue, 14 Mar 2017 16:41 Ben Evans, <benjamin.john.evans at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> On today's EC call, we had an update from Rory about outreach to
>> open-source projects to help ensure testing on JDK 9.
>>
>> One question that came up is - can we get some better sense as to
>> which projects are actually creating modules and going "Java 9
>> native", as opposed to producing Java 9-compatible jars and running
>> under legacy classloading?
>>
>> Two places that we thought we could start with are:
>>
>> * BigQuery on Github - to detect use of Java 9 keywords or
>> module-info.java
>>
>> * Module files appearing in public artifact repositories
>>
>> I think it would be really useful to help get an idea of how widely
>> adopted modules really are.
>>
>> Thoughts?
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Ben
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