Adoption Group

The adoption group was formed out of the global Java User Group (JUG) Adopt OpenJDK programme. A majority of the original programme is expected to be folded up into this adoption group over time. 

Sign Up!

You can join in the discussions and activities of this group in the following ways:

• adoption-discuss - mailing list
• http://openjdk.java.net/irc/ - IRC channel

Mission Statement

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

Sustainable and Scalable

The Adoption group aims to fulfil that Mission Statement in a sustainable and scalable manner. The adoption group will likely focus on helping educate new contributors with regards to submitting relevant, high quality patches and supporting existing projects and groups with documentation, infrastructure and evangelism effortsAs a longer explanation, the Adoption group's mission is to increase the quantity and quality of community contributions in a sustainable and scalable manner.

Specific Goals

The adoption group aims to:

1. Lower technical barriers, allowing more developers, JUGs and organisations to get involved in OpenJDK
2. Improve the quality of Java (the language and the platform) with a focus on testing and clearing technical debt
3. Promote OpenJDK in the wider Java community
4. Broaden the base of contributors to OpenJDK

Much of this program will get ported over time to the OpenJDK itself (especially wiki style documentation).

Projects/Initiatives

Initiatives

The Adoption Group Adopt OpenJDK has several initiatives on the go, a representative sample is below:

Building OpenJDK
• New Contributor -
Up to date instructions on building OpenJDK across O/S's, IDEs,
• Test Fests - Write tests to improve the quality of Java
• Testing Java 8 - Get the Java OSS (and closed source world) tested early with OpenJDK/Java 8
• Lambda Tutorials - Learning resources for developers new to Lambas in Java 8
• Betterrev - Improve the patch submission, build and test lifecycle for OpenJDK
• Javacountdown - Ensure the world is using the safest "Java in the browser"
• A guide on how to submit a patch to OpenJDK as a new contributor.
• Developers Guide - For OpenJDK developers.
• Quality Outreach - An initiative to involve the Java/JVM F/OSS ecosystem to test OpenJDK.
• JDK 9 Outreach - A quick guide to readying your code to test it with JDK 9.
• Hackdays - Physical or Virtual get togethers to work on OpenJDK projects.

adoptopenjdk.net

Although not an official OpenJDK project, most Adoption Group members are involved in the new shared build farm for OpenJDK at adoptopenjdk.net.  This build farm and infrastructure as code will allow OpenJDK developers to build and test OpenJDK on as many versions, variants and platforms as possible.

Housekeeping

As with any organisation, there's always some housekeeping.

• Quarterly Reports

 See Adopt OpenJDK Projects for the full list.