With the rise of GitHub and the recent move of the Eclipse foundation to a social coding model, more and more people are wondering why participation in OpenJDK isn’t keeping up with the times. A small group of people from the London Java Community (LJC) and Adopt OpenJDK are trying to solve this problem by building Betterrev, a platform that will reduce barriers to entry for participation in OpenJDK and also improve visibility of contributions. This presentation will highlight our motivations for the Betterrev project, the primary goals (and proposed roadmap), and our current progress. Our intent is that all attendees will be excited by the potential benefits that the social-coding philosophy could bring to the OpenJDK, and will be encouraged to generously volunteer their time and skills to help push the development of Betterrev forward, with the ultimate goal of creating a highly social ecosystem around contributions to a free Java. https://fosdem.org/2014/schedule/event/from_webrev_to_betterrev/

1. From Webrev to Betterrev
Facilitating Contributions to OpenJDK
Daniel Bryant
Mani Sarkar
@taidevcouk
@theNeomatrix369
London Java Community
Adopt OpenJDK
@ljcjug
@adoptopenjdk

2. Difficulties for the Public Contributors
“Getting started can be daunting…”
“This doesn’t quite feel like ‘social coding’”
Thorough testing
is challenging...
Visibility of contributions

3. Difficulties for Oracle & Committers
Discussions on incorrect mailing lists
Lots of work for reviewers
Quality of contributions can be problematic

4. Our Proposal
Challenging for the community to move OpenJDK
to a fully social coding model...
… so lets implement the Decorator pattern

5. Introducing Betterrev...
• Mirrored OpenJDK repos in Bitbucket
• Community-driven web portal
• “Single-click” setup for newbies
• Automate quality review of patches
• Move discussions to code

6. The Grand Plan

7. Screencast / Demo
Betterrev (almost) live before your eyes...

8. Betterrev PullReview Portal

9. Challenges Conquered
Betterrev web portal (v1)
Bitbucket API integration
Mailing list mappings
Feedback!
- JavaOne, Devoxx, LJCConf
- Hackdays run within the LJC
- and FOSDEM...

10. The Future
The v1.0 release!
Automating quality review
- Checkstyle
- The Build Farm
Your suggestions?

11. Appreciation
Thanks to all of the Adopt OpenJDK supporters
...and the (ever-growing!) Betterrev community

12. We need your help!
Your comments, feedback...
How can Betterrev help you?
Any help is much appreciated!

13. Get Involved...
Find us on Bitbucket
https://bitbucket.org/adoptopenjdk/betterrev
Join our Google Group:
https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/betterrev
Contact Us!
@adoptopenjdk @taidevcouk @theNeomatrix369