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Finally, in March, the Group discussed a new Quality Outreach Wiki page, the OpenJDK server migration, the new JCov code coverage tool from the Code Tools Project, and submitting patches to OpenJDK. The latter discussion resulted in a new Wiki page guiding new contributors to their first steps and further resources. Last but not least, announcements of Early Access builds based on various OpenJDK Projects along with their regression test results started to be posted to the mailing list to encourage their further adoption and testing.

QA Outreach

As part of a QA outreach effort by this Group's Members, 18 FOSS Projects and their developers listed on the corresponding Wiki page have been regularly contacted to announce the availability of Early Access (EA) builds based on various OpenJDK Projects, and encouraged to report back any issues they found during their testing. With about two thirds of the contacted Projects regularly testing such EA builds, a number of issues could be found and fixed in time prior to a release.

In this quarter, developers from participating projects filed 12 new issues in the JDK Bug System, 9 of which could be resolved. 5 of the issues filed turned out to be P1 issues, like issue JDK-8032566 found by the Scala development team, issue JDK-8031572 found by the Apache Maven development team, and issue JDK-8031502 found by the Groovy development team.

All of these issues could be addressed in time for JDK 8 GA, and the most prolific testers were mentioned in Mark Reinhold's JDK 8 GA blog post.

Wiki contributions

After an initial cleanup round of the Group's wiki page from legacy pages, 3 Group Members have created 3 new pages on this Group's wiki in this quarter, and updated one existing page. The new pages cover quarterly reports, a guide for new contributors, and the Group Members' QA outreach efforts. The Main page has been updated with a mission statement for the Adoption Group, after discussion on the mailing lists:

"To promote and support community involvement in the development, adoption and evangelism of OpenJDK projects"