Summary: JDK8 Warnings Cleanup Day

[Martijn Verburg]

Glad to hear there was a good result out of it - we certainly learned
a lot and had a good deal of fun as well! - M

On 9 December 2011 04:56, Jonathan Gibbons <jonathan.gibbons at oracle.com> wrote:
> Wow, most impressive!
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> -- Jon
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> On 12/08/2011 08:12 PM, Xiomara Jayasena wrote:
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>> Hi,
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>> Last week we held [1] the first (of hopefully several!) JDK8 Warnings
>> Cleanup Days (WCD), where the OpenJDK community collaborated to reduce the
>> number of warnings in the JDK8 source.
>> We started with just over 10,000 warnings before WCD. The checked-in
>> changesets fixed a total of *1,498 * warnings, leaving 8,515.
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>> The pending changesets (with webrevs) would fix and additional 674
>> warnings, giving a grand total of *2,172* warning fixed, bringing us down to
>> 7,841 overall.  Great job to everyone who participated!!
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>> If you would like to see the further breakdown of the changes, you can go
>> to the warnings cleanup wiki [2] and see them there.
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>> We learned a lot from this first experience and appreciated how quickly
>> the community responded to our request for help even with such short notice.
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>> Thanks again!
>> -Xiomara
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>> [1]
>> http://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/jdk8-dev/2011-November/000302.html
>> [2]
>> http://wikis.sun.com/display/OpenJDK/JDK8+warning+cleanup+day+%282011-12-01%29
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