TimeZone Updater Tool/Project, where would we put it? (original) (raw)

Severin Gehwolf sgehwolf at redhat.com
Mon Nov 25 10:24:35 UTC 2019

Hi,

On Mon, 2019-11-25 at 10:02 +0000, Andrew Leonard wrote:

Hi there, Not had a lot of interest in contributing this yet, so was going to ask the question a different way. If we were to contribute it where would we put it? - As part of the JDK project?

IMHO yes. Consider making it built-time enable-able via configure switches (e.g. --with-tz-updater={yes,no})

- Create its own project? and associated mercurial repo?

It's a possiblity.

- Add to an existing other tooling project?

Perhaps it's too early to tell. Is the code available somewhere at this point and would there be a commitment (from IBM) to keeping it maintained? I.e. is this a one-time code-drop or a long-term commitment?

Depending on the size of this, it may warrant a JEP.

Thanks, Severin

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