Re: On what issues could I help clean up for JDK 9

[Martijn Verburg]

Thanks Claes!

That's helpful, we'll pick a few of these over on adoption-discuss and come
back here to start a discussion on the relevant issue(s) before we start.

Cheers,
Martijn

On 2 December 2016 at 13:12, Claes Redestad 
wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I'd suggest start looking at requests for code cleanup, performance
> optimizations or similar that doesn't
> alter any public semantics (such as adding public APIs or subtly changing
> the behavior of existing
> ones).
>
> A few simple JBS searches lists at least some things that look tempting:
>
> "Cleanup":
> https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/issues/?jql=text%20~%20%22Clea
> nup%22%20%26%26%20status%20in%20(Open)%20and%20assignee%20is%20EMPTY
>
> "Optimize":
> https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/issues/?jql=text%20~%20%22Clea
> nup%22%20%26%26%20status%20in%20(Open)%20and%20assignee%20is%20EMPTY
>
> Some, mostly hotspot engineers, use the "starter" label to mark issues
> thought to be good candidates for someone new to the project (this doesn't
> necessarily
> mean "easy"):
> https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/issues/?jql=labels%20in%20(%22
> starter%22)%20%26%26%20status%20in%20(Open)
>
> Hope this helps!
>
> /Claes
>
> On 2016-12-01 22:58, Patrick Reinhart wrote:
>
>> Hi there,
>>
>> I wanted to ask if there is a simple JBS query to find small  clean up
>> parts to help with?
>>
>> Seems to me a good starting point for some „hacking-on-the-OpenJDK-sessio
>> ns“
>>
>>
>> -Patrick
>>
>
>

Re: On what issues could I help clean up for JDK 9

[dalibor topic]

Community-wide 'starter issues' are a better idea in theory, then they 
are in practice.


Typically the theory behind them is to mark some low priority issues for 
someone else to fix. But in practice, not all low priority fixes are 
welcome at all times. See 
http://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/adoption-discuss/2016-August/001422.html 
for a longer explanation why that's the case.


In practice, it's a better idea to focus new contributors' attention not 
on what they can do for the large projects with schedules, processes and 
all that good, complicated stuff that enables releases to happen, like 
JDK 9 or JDK 8 Updates, but on what they can do in the projects that are 
in a more exploratory phase, such as Valhalla. Beside exploration of new 
ideas being more fun for new contributors, they are also often eager for 
the kind of feedback on the new ideas and designs, that comes from 
playing with the new toys and often enough, breaking them in interesting 
ways.


cheers,
dalibor topic

On 02.12.2016 13:53, Patrick Reinhart wrote:

What was the outcome of that discussion?

I seem to miss that one. My question comes from the past presentation I gave 
about contributing to the OpenJDK. And one of the main things was not only to 
do some local hacking but instead try to solve some small issues, that else 
would not be fixed because of other more important things.

-Patrick


Am 02.12.2016 um 11:45 schrieb Martijn Verburg :

There's no JBS query that I know of (I think in the distant past we discussed 
adding a low hanging fruit 'Duke' tag?).

Cheers,
Martijn




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Re: On what issues could I help clean up for JDK 9

[Claes Redestad]

Hi,

I'd suggest start looking at requests for code cleanup, performance 
optimizations or similar that doesn't
alter any public semantics (such as adding public APIs or subtly 
changing the behavior of existing

ones).

A few simple JBS searches lists at least some things that look tempting:

"Cleanup":
https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/issues/?jql=text%20~%20%22Cleanup%22%20%26%26%20status%20in%20(Open)%20and%20assignee%20is%20EMPTY

"Optimize":
https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/issues/?jql=text%20~%20%22Cleanup%22%20%26%26%20status%20in%20(Open)%20and%20assignee%20is%20EMPTY

Some, mostly hotspot engineers, use the "starter" label to mark issues 
thought to be good candidates for someone new to the project (this 
doesn't necessarily

mean "easy"):
https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/issues/?jql=labels%20in%20(%22starter%22)%20%26%26%20status%20in%20(Open)

Hope this helps!

/Claes

On 2016-12-01 22:58, Patrick Reinhart wrote:

Hi there,

I wanted to ask if there is a simple JBS query to find small  clean up parts to 
help with?

Seems to me a good starting point for some „hacking-on-the-OpenJDK-sessions“


-Patrick

Re: On what issues could I help clean up for JDK 9

[Patrick Reinhart]

What was the outcome of that discussion? 

I seem to miss that one. My question comes from the past presentation I gave 
about contributing to the OpenJDK. And one of the main things was not only to 
do some local hacking but instead try to solve some small issues, that else 
would not be fixed because of other more important things.

-Patrick

> Am 02.12.2016 um 11:45 schrieb Martijn Verburg :
> 
> There's no JBS query that I know of (I think in the distant past we discussed 
> adding a low hanging fruit 'Duke' tag?).
> 
> Cheers,
> Martijn

Re: On what issues could I help clean up for JDK 9

[Martijn Verburg]

There's no JBS query that I know of (I think in the distant past we
discussed adding a low hanging fruit 'Duke' tag?).

Cheers,
Martijn

On 1 December 2016 at 21:58, Patrick Reinhart  wrote:

> Hi there,
>
> I wanted to ask if there is a simple JBS query to find small  clean up
> parts to help with?
>
> Seems to me a good starting point for some „hacking-on-the-OpenJDK-
> sessions“
>
>
> -Patrick

On what issues could I help clean up for JDK 9

[Patrick Reinhart]

Hi there,

I wanted to ask if there is a simple JBS query to find small  clean up parts to 
help with?

Seems to me a good starting point for some „hacking-on-the-OpenJDK-sessions“


-Patrick