On Thu, Jan 8, 2009 at 12:03 PM, phil.swen...@gmail.com <phil.swen...@gmail.com> 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. 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:van_ri...@dev.java.net | https://sv-web-jug.dev.java.net ---- | Silicon Valley Google Technology User Group | mailto:van.g...@gmail.com | 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 javaposse@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to javaposse+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/javaposse?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
