The current mips-port project is more or less abandoned. There is just
Dalibor as lead, and no other registrered contributors. [1] No serious
activitity has happend on the mailing lists for years, and there is not
even a hg repository associated with the project.
It does seem like a good idea to revive it for bringing in your mips
port into a more current version of OpenJDK.
I would suggest that, if Dalibor is happy with it, he should pass on the
role as mips-port lead to you, since you are actively pursuing the mips
port at this point.
In any case, the first thing to to is for the mips-port lead to request
a new repository for the up to date port. The project lead needs to send
a mail to o...@openjdk.java.net and specify the name of the repository.
My suggestion would be "mips-port/jdk" if the intention is to track the
current jdk/jdk master, or "mips-port/jdk11" (or jdk8, or ...) if the
intention is to track a specific, released, version.
Once a repo is in place, I can give further guidance in how to proceed.
[1] http://openjdk.java.net/census#mips-port
On 2018-07-26 18:01, Ao Qi wrote:
Hi Dalibor,
Ping?
Could you suggest me what should I do for bringing the port into the
MIPS Porting Project?
Thanks,
Ao Qi
Ao Qi <a...@loongson.cn> 于2018年6月19日周二 下午4:28写道：
Hi,
I think that it's too late for a new a port come into JDK 8 Updates Project
at this time, with less then a year to go under the current maintainers,
considering how long it would take to bring the code into OpenJDK, run
through the JEP process, code reviews, etc.
It's probably too late for a fresh port to make it into JDK 11, as well,
with less than a month to go until rampdown starts.
Thank you very much for your reply and suggestion. I understand that
it is too late for a new port to be into the main line of jdk8u and
jdk11.
So my suggestion would be to start by bringing your port into the MIPS
Porting Project, and then, once it's brought forward to JDK 11 and there is
a build passing JCK for Java SE 11, to go through the JEP process for
inclusion in a later version of the JDK.
I think your suggestion is very reasonable, helpful and acceptable. We
are willing to adopt your suggestion. However, I have one question
about your suggestion. Could you explain more about bringing our port
into the MIPS Porting Project? I'm not quite sure what it specifically
means. Is that we can put our code into OpenJDK repository (not the
main line) like aarh64 jdk8u[1] and the further development should
happened according to community requirements, such as [2][3]？
[1] http://hg.openjdk.java.net/aarch64-port
[2] http://openjdk.java.net/bylaws
[3] http://openjdk.java.net/contribute
cheers,
dalibor topic
