On Thu, Jan 8, 2009 at 12:33 PM, Van Riper <[email protected]> wrote: > On Thu, Jan 8, 2009 at 12:03 PM, [email protected] > <[email protected]> wrote: >> I would like to contribute some ideas to the Java language, not quite >> sure where to get started.... Do you have to be a member of the JCP to >> contribute ideas? Do ideas require writing monster specs? > > I'm a JCP newbie myself. Individual membership is free, but, you have > to complete a legal agreement and get your employer to sign off on it > too. I did that recently. Don't be scared off by the 10+ page legal > document. It is just for legal reasons so that you can't come back > later and say something you contributed to some JSR as a JCP member is > IP that belongs to your employer. Basically, you agree to not > contribute ideas or code that your company has IP rights to. Pretty > standard legal stuff.
By the way, this went quite smoothly for me. Luckily, I work for a small startup. So, the legal review by my company before my boss (one of the founders) signed off took about 5 minutes. =) After I faxed in the legal document, I was setup as a JCP member within the next 48 hours. That is the good news. The bad news is this doesn't get you much. You are still pretty much on your own to seek out a JSR of interest and convince the individuals in charge of that JSR that you are "worthy" to contribute to it. > > Seems to me (realizing I am recent JCP member myself) the best way to > get started is to find an existing JSR that you would like to > contribute to. Typically, the expert group is working on a reference > implementation in parallel to the spec development. Also typically, > there is a dev mailing list that anyone can follow for the individual > JSRs. I've started following JSR 310 and may volunteer at some point > to help out on the reference implementation they are working on. In my > case with JSR 310, there is a SVN repository for the reference > implementation that anyone can checkout from. Obviously, you have to > prove yourself before you will get committer permissions on that > repository. > > Others on this list that are more familiar with JCP and JSR activities > please feel free to chime in with your thoughts. > > Thanks, Van > > -- > | Michael "Van" Riper > | http://weblogs.java.net/blog/van_riper/ > | http://www.linkedin.com/in/vanriper > ---- > | Silicon Valley Web JUG > | mailto:[email protected] > | https://sv-web-jug.dev.java.net > ---- > | Silicon Valley Google Technology User Group > | mailto:[email protected] > | http://sv-gtug.org --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "The Java Posse" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/javaposse?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
