Quality Outreach Update intro.

The first Quality Report was published in September 2015 here, our intention is to provide a report every six months.

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• Section one looks at the increasing number of FOSS Projects being added to the Quality Outreach wiki
• Section two lists Bug logging activities over the past six months (March 2016 - Sep 2016 ). 
• Section three lists Projects that have been active in providing feedback on Project Jigsaw.
• Section four lists traffic on quality-discuss@openjdk.java.net

1.0 FOSS Projects listed on Quality Outreach Wiki.

We now have 70 FOSS Projects and their developers listed on the Quality Outreach Wiki page,this is an increase of 21

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their testing. As you will see they have been particularly busy this last six months.

2.0 Bugs logged since March 2016

Developers from 10 of the 70 participating projects filed 35 new issues in the JDK Bug System, this is almost double the number of bugs

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with core-libs benefiting most.

2.1 FOSS Projects logging significant bugs

The following Projects have submitted significant bug reports in the last six months and deserve special mention:

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• Apache Ant
• Wildfly
• PDFBox
• Hibernate
• PMD

2.2 Overall Summary of bugs filed to date by Projects.

3.0 List of FOSS Projects providing feedback on  jigsaw-dev@openjdk.java.net  mailing list.

Project Jigsaw has received very useful feedback from the following projects

4.0 Traffic on the OpenJDK Quality mailing list  - quality-discuss@openjdk.java.net

• Total 13 members  participated in different discussions.
• Discussion threads
  
  • Test Results - 26
  • EA availability - 8
  • Request for addition to OpenJDK Quality Outreach Listing- 2
  • Others:
    
    • jamVM + openjdk1.7 run Felix OSGI Gogo bundle issue
    • Feedback from Hacking Java 9 at the Chicago Java Users Group
    • Consolidation of JAXB/JAX-WS issues
    • API changes analysis report
    • String.equalsIgnoreCase(...) optimization
    • Automate download of new JDK Early Access Releases 

The next Quality Outreach report is due in March 2017.