Company
Date Published
Author
Martin Woodward
Word count
346
Language
English
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None

Summary

Earlier this month, the OpenJDK Community successfully migrated to GitHub through Project 'Skara', which involved transitioning JDK 16 main-line development from self-hosted Mercurial servers to Git and GitHub. This significant effort, led by the Java Platform Group at Oracle, required the development of custom CLI tooling, bi-directional bridging with OpenJDK mailing lists, and integration with the OpenJDK bug tracking system. The migration also included adopting GitHub Actions for CI builds and creating integrations with the GitHub API, all of which are now open source. The move allows the OpenJDK projects to utilize GitHub's features for Java developers, such as free code scanning for security vulnerabilities and semantic code navigation. The OpenJDK now joins other popular Java projects on GitHub like Gradle, Maven, and Elasticsearch, marking a new chapter for the Java community on the platform.