In two interviews, Martijn Verburg, leaders of the London Java user group and Cecilia Borg, Project Manager at Oracle explain the OpenJDK and two community projects Adopt-a-JSR and Adopt OpenJDK.
"The Java Platform is huge and, to a lot of people, it is too big" explained Cecilia. "OpenJDK is divided into 22 different groups and 40 different projects to make it easy to participate." She recommends starting small by "subscribing to one of the mailing lists at openjdk.java.net" and contributing small bug fixes, for example. It is important that contributors learn as much as possible and pick a project that feels right for them.
"The Java Platform is huge and, to a lot of people, it is too big" explained Cecilia. "OpenJDK is divided into 22 different groups and 40 different projects to make it easy to participate." She recommends starting small by "subscribing to one of the mailing lists at openjdk.java.net" and contributing small bug fixes, for example. It is important that contributors learn as much as possible and pick a project that feels right for them.
"The idea of Adopt-a-JSR is to have ordinary Java developers get involved with the creation of standards" indicates Martijn. "Adopt-a-JSR is about Java EE and ME standards." "The work on the Java language and the JVM is done as part of OpenJDK and Adopt OpenJDK projects," Verburg continues. He outlines how to start on those projects. Contributors can be individuals but also JUG leaders, who organize coding events to work on Java standards.