2009/7/15 Ulf Zibis <ulf.zi...@gmx.de>: > Am 15.07.2009 16:26, Neal Gafter schrieb: >> >> On Wed, Jul 15, 2009 at 4:01 AM, Dalibor Topic <dalibor.to...@sun.com >> <mailto:dalibor.to...@sun.com>> wrote: >> >> A good start is the OpenJDK developer guide - see >> http://openjdk.java.net/guide/ to learn how the project works. >> >> >> That set of pages is mostly filled with promises of the form "This section >> will contain...". For example >> <http://openjdk.java.net/guide/processWorkflow.html>: >> >> >> Process Workflow >> >> version 0.01 >> >> This is the main navigation for the document and the primary entry point. >> It is intended to be a quick start and overview which will have a >> hyperlinked diagram indicating sample work flows for common operations such >> as submitting a bug fix and adding a new API. >> >> At one time these sections also contained a schedule for when they would >> be completed, but those dates have long since passed and the schedule has >> been removed. It appears that supporting external contributors was never >> very high-priority. >> >> -Neal >> > > I think, it would be good idea to make the webrev tool available for > external contributors too. It's the perfect tool for discussion on > changesets. > Additionally IMHO support for working with NetBeans is not as it could be. > > -Ulf > > >
Err... webrev is available, several external contributors such as myself have already posted patches using it. http://blogs.sun.com/jcc/entry/webrev_script_updated -- Andrew :-) Free Java Software Engineer Red Hat, Inc. (http://www.redhat.com) Support Free Java! Contribute to GNU Classpath and the OpenJDK http://www.gnu.org/software/classpath http://openjdk.java.net PGP Key: 94EFD9D8 (http://subkeys.pgp.net) Fingerprint: F8EF F1EA 401E 2E60 15FA 7927 142C 2591 94EF D9D8