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 2017 - September 2017). 
• Section three mentions Projects that have been active in providing feedback on various dev@openjdk.java.net  mailing lists.
• Section four lists traffic on quality-discuss@openjdk.java.net
• Section five lists External presentations

1.0 FOSS Projects listed on Quality Outreach Wiki.

We now have 92  95 FOSS Projects and their developers listed on the Quality Outreach Wiki page,this is an increase of 4 7

FOSS Projects since the last report in March 2017. Note, we have a further 16 Projects that we communicate with

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test and  report back any issues they find during their testing.

2.0 Bugs logged since March 2017

Developers from 11 of the 108 participating 111 participating projects filed 17 new issues in the JDK Bug System, thank you !

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with tools 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 Log4J
• Wildfly
• Eclipse Jetty
• RxJava

2.2 Overall Summary of bugs filed to date by Projects.

3.0 List of FOSS Projects providing feedback on various  dev@openjdk.java.net  mailing lists.

In the last six months many Open Source Projects have provided feedback on various dev@openjdk.met mailing lists, too many to list here!

Thank you all for your feedback.

4.0 quality-discuss@openjdk.java.net

• Total 20 members  participated in various discussions on the mailing list.
• Discussion threads
  
  • Test Results - 18
  • EA availability - 6
  • JDK10 hotspot regression tests - 6
  • New Quality Group Member - 4
  • Bug Review/discussion - 2
  • JDK10 early access buuilds availability- 2
  • Regression Test failures - 1
  • Regression JTR files - 1

5.0 External Presentations

• FOSDEM 2017

  • Presentation

    • JDK 9 Outreach - The Awesome Parts

    • Video of Presentation

The next Quality Outreach report is due in March 2018.