Hi Stuart, Thank you for the very detailed response.
I decided to have a crack at "JDK-8134373 explore potential uses of convenience factories within the JDK" today. I recognise it's only a P4 bug and most likely won't be prioritised for Java 9, but I believe I found a number of places where uses of "Collections.unmodifiableList(Arrays.asList(...))" and "Arrays.asList(..)" can be replaced with "List.of(...)". I've thus made some changes to my local clone of the jdk9 codebase. I'm now at a point where I'm unfamiliar with what one does next when contributing to OpenJDK, so I wonder if you'd kindly advise me on what my next step(s) are. Kind regards, Jonathan On 3 September 2016 at 01:41, Stuart Marks <stuart.ma...@oracle.com> wrote: > 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
