Vote: yes /Georges
> On Nov 8, 2019, at 2:29 PM, mark.reinh...@oracle.com wrote: > > On behalf of Maurizio Cimadamore I hereby propose creation of the > "IDE & Tooling Support" Group, with Maurizio as the initial Lead. > > Maurizio’s proposal: > > At the last OpenJDK Committer Workshop in Brussels, we agreed to set > up some channel in which to discuss issues related to OpenJDK tooling > and, more specifically, IDE support. We already have pretty > comprehensive support for OpenJDK development in both IntelliJ and > Netbeans, but the main, long standing problem has been one of lack of > adequate communication and coordination between these various efforts, > which often led (frustrated) developers to the path of "I'll write my > own support". > > The goal of this group is, first and foremost, to extensively document > the alternatives that are already available at present, as well as to > capture discussions related to tooling support which are currently > scattered among many mailing list (compiler-dev, jtreg-dev, > build-dev). After some discussion [3], it feels like proposing a > group is the right thing to do because: (i) a group automatically gets > a mailing list and a page on openjdk.java.net -- which can be useful > for communicating within the group and also for publishing the much > needed documentation; also (ii) a group is not tied to any specific > set of deliverables (unlike, say, an OpenJDK Project), which feels > right in this case, as IDE support is likely to be a recurring > activity. > > We want the OpenJDK Community to be a welcoming place for developers, > and I feel that improving IDE/tooling support plays a crucial role in > reducing the activation energy required to start hacking on the JDK > codebase. > > I'm proposing to lead the Group given the extensive work I've done in > the area of improving the usability of various IDE products for JDK > development. I've started this work 10 years ago by adding support > for a standalone project to work on langtools with the Netbeans IDE; > this work then continued when I created, together with Chris Hegarty, > a way to generate JDK-wide IntelliJ projects, given a set of JDK > modules the developer wants to work with. Finally, I've also behind > the effort to improve the support for jtreg inside the Intellij IDE. > > I propose the following list of initial members: > > Chris Hegarty (Oracle) > Jan Lahoda (Oracle) > Jonathan Gibbons (Oracle) > Robin Westberg (Oracle) > Magnus Ihse Bursie (Oracle) > > Only current Governing Board Members[1] are eligible to vote on this > motion. Votes must be cast in the open by replying to this mailing > list. > > Votes are due by 23:00 UTC next Friday, 15 November. > > For Simple Majority voting instructions, see [2]. > > My apologies for the long delay in forwarding this proposal. > > - Mark > > [1] http://openjdk.java.net/census#gb > [2] http://openjdk.java.net/groups/#new-group-vote > [3] https://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/discuss/2019-March/004983.html
