Accelerating the JDK release cadence (original) (raw)

cowwoc cowwoc at bbs.darktech.org
Thu Sep 7 19:48:30 UTC 2017

On 2017-09-07 3:19 PM, Jonathan Bluett-Duncan wrote:

...Github is horribly slow for larger projects.

I wonder if you could you point me to a particular open source project on GitHub that suffers from this problem, and explain to me what slows down exactly?

I've never encounted this problem on github.com, only Github Enterprise. I've only ever dealt with smaller projects on github.com and it's possible that the former is better managed than Github Enterprise installations tend to be. In the case of my particular employer, most operations were decently fast, but opening, comments, and merging PRs was extremely slow. This has only gotten slower over time with newer versions of Github Enterprise and as the size of our projects have grown.

I think we're more likely to see bugs.openjdk.java.net opened to the public before we'll see the code on Github/Bitbucket. The source-code is already open to the public. The main benefit of moving it to Github/Bitbucket would be to provide 2-way communication in the form of bug reports and PRs. Given Oracle's business model, I don't see that happening any time soon.

Gili

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