- #UPLOADING A REPOSITORY TO GITHUB MAC OS X INSTALL#
- #UPLOADING A REPOSITORY TO GITHUB MAC OS X UPDATE#
Then few additional steps are required in order to contribute to If a developer already has an account on a provider The largest providers would also offer the OpenJDKĬommunity the opportunity to tap into large existing communities of developersĪnd potential contributors. Allowing programs to participate in the review process enables powerfulĪutomation see the Description section for several examples.Įxpanded community. Programs that interpret free-form text in emails compared to using a structuredĪPI. Interacting with developers over email, it is considerably harder to implement Although not impossible to achieve today by Hosting platform is to gain access to web APIs that enable programs to interact A technical reason to host OpenJDK repositories on a source-code
For the OpenJDK Community this would result in significantlyįaster clone and pull times, and more highly-available source-codeĪPI. Only with regard to network performance but also when it comes to availability, Many, if not all, providers have excellent performance, not There are three primary reasons for the OpenJDK Community to use an external That is not implemented and managed by contributors in the OpenJDKĬommunity. Why an external source-code hosting provider?Īn external source-code hosting provider is a source-code repository service Hosting provider, and then we explain why GitHub is the best choice of providerĪt this time. Would benefit the OpenJDK Community to make use of an external source-code The motivation for this JEP is split into two sections. Possible to interact with repositories on GitHub via web browsers.Possible to interact with repositories on GitHub via command-line tools.Possible to interact with repositories on GitHub via OpenJDK mailing lists.Better availability (uptime) of repositories.Significantly faster clone and pull times.Wiki, or any other existing infrastructure. It is not a goal to change the OpenJDK Community's issue tracker,
#UPLOADING A REPOSITORY TO GITHUB MAC OS X INSTALL#
#UPLOADING A REPOSITORY TO GITHUB MAC OS X UPDATE#
In concert with JEP 357 (Migrate from Mercurial to Git), this would migrate all single-repository OpenJDK Projects to GitHub, including both JDK feature releases and JDK update releases for versions 11 and later. Host the OpenJDK Community's Git repositories on GitHub.