Talk proposal: The OpenJDK Developer Experience

[Erik Helin]

Title:
The OpenJDK Developer Experience

Abstract:
Much has happened in the last year for developers contributing to OpenJDK:
- the repositories have been consolidated into a single repository
- the run-test make target has been introduced
- the JTReg (and jcov, asmtools and jtharness) build have been greatly
   improved
- there is now a binary build of OpenJDK that can be used as --boot-jdk
   (on Linux x86-64)

The situation for HotSpot developers has also improved over the years:
- the HotSpot build system was converted to the "new" build system
- a proper unit test framework for C++ code (googletest) was added
- debug symbols are no longer zipped by default
- the JDK and HotSpot JTReg testlibraries were combined into one

This talk will show how all these changes make the OpenJDK developer
experience a lot smoother. The speakers will also share their personal
tips and tricks on how to work even faster on OpenJDK!

We also realize that the OpenJDK developer experience is far from
optimal, and would therefore like this talk to initiate a discussion on
what could be improved and how people can get involved.

Speakers:
- Erik Duveblad (formerly Helin), OpenJDK developer working at Oracle
- Roman Kennke, OpenJDK developer working at Red Hat

Time:
25 min

Recording video and/or audio CC-BY-2.0 license:
Erik Duveblad: fine
Roman Kennke: fine

Blog:
Erik Duveblad: -
Roman Kennke: https://rkennke.wordpress.com

Microblog:
Erik Duveblad: -
Roman Kennke: @rkennke on Twitter

Thanks,
Erik & Roman