Hi Jonathan,
Welcome to OpenJDK, and thanks for your interest in JEP 269!
I see you found a the subtasks of JDK-8156070, which is basically a container
for a bunch of ideas for work on the JEP 269 collections. I took a quick look
through them and this one seemed promising:
JDK-8134373 explore potential uses of convenience factories within the JDK
This isn't necessarily what you're looking for, as it's not working on the
collections themselves, but instead it's attempting to put them to use within
the JDK. I've added some notes to this bug about the dynamics of retrofitting
usage into the JDK. Although it's not work directly on the collections, finding
out where they can and cannot be applied would definitely be useful. It would
also be useful, of course, if space savings could be realized by using them
instead of conventional collections (where appropriate, of course).
I'd also suggest looking beyond the JEP 269 tasks and at broader collections
issues. To query for unresolved collections issues, go to bugs.openjdk.java.net;
click Issues > Search for Issues; click Advanced; and paste the following query
into the search box:
project = jdk and component = core-libs and subcomponent = java.util:collections
and resolution = unresolved
(You should be able to run this query without having a JIRA account.)
There's a wider variety of things here, which might turn up something more
appropriate. (Then again, the choice might be overwhelming.)
As Mark Reinhold mentioned, we're now in the "ramp-down phase 1" part of the JDK
9 schedule, so the proposal is to start restricting the kind of work that can be
done. The low-priority bugs are probably off the table until JDK 10 (I'm not
sure when that tree opens up), but some things like docs and tests are still
fair game for the time being. (Also note that "the javadoc" is a mixture of
specifications and informative documentation, and the differences between them
aren't always apparent. Specification changes require a good deal more rigor,
and they go through extra rounds of review.)
Anyway, I hope you find something of interest. I'm going heads-down to prepare
for JavaOne (Sep 18-22) but I'll try to keep an eye out for followup messages.
s'marks
[1] http://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/jdk9-dev/2016-August/004777.html
On 9/2/16 5:59 AM, Jonathan Bluett-Duncan wrote:
Hi Stuart Marks,
I've been told by Martijn Verburg on the discuss mailing list that you're
the lead person for the Immutable Collections enhancements piece.
Is there anything I can do to help you out with https://bugs.openjdk.
java.net/browse/JDK-8156070 or any other part of JEP 269
<http://openjdk.java.net/jeps/269>?
Kind regards,
Jonathan
On 28 August 2016 at 17:25, Jonathan Bluett-Duncan <jbluettdun...@gmail.com>
wrote:
Hi all,
My name is Jonathan, and it's my first time posting to this mailing list.
I'm writing to you all as I'm rather interested in contributing to this
area of the OpenJDK. Particularly, I'm thinking I'd quite like to help out
with one of the subtasks for the Immutable Collections enhancements
<https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8156070>. However I don't have
specific ideas and I don't know which of the subtasks would most closely
match my skills and knowledge, so I wondered if I could have some guidance
as to what I could do and how I can get started.
FYI, I've partially read the contribution instructions
<http://openjdk.java.net/contribute/>, and I just submitted an OCA
earlier today, so I don't expect to be actually ready to participate until
I hear back from Oracle, but nonetheless I'd like to try to get the ball
rolling as soon as possible.
Kind regards,
Jonathan Bluett-Duncan
