Supporting the OpenJDK11 port to FreeBSD

[Barry van Someren]

Hi Eirik,

I'm in a similar boat here. Would love to help out make OpenJDK 11 happen
on FreeBSD, but my C skills are somewhat.. lacking.
If it's any help to you, from what I've seen on the mailinglist, the Linux
JDK worked fine up until JDK 10 using the compatibility layer so getting
some form of recent Java is not impossible.

OpenJDK 8 will receive fixes for the foreseeable future upstream and so far
these updates have trickled back to FreeBSD as well thanks to people on
this list :-)

To answer one of your other questions; The FreeBSD Foundation might be
helpful to contact and donate to.
It's giving Tuesday today so donations to the foundation are most welcome.
They also used to license the TCK from Sun / Oracle up to version 8
Even a small donation and a reminder that people are deploying Java on
FreeBSD is helpful.

And since this is my first time contacting this list, please accept my
thanks to all of you who make Java work on FreeBSD!

Regards,

Barry


On Tue, Nov 27, 2018 at 8:29 PM Eirik Øverby <eirik.overby at modirum.com>
wrote:

> Hi,
>
> Realized I sent this from the wrong address to the wrong address .. sorry
> if this comes across as pestering!
>
> I hope someone can take a look at the below, or point me in the right
> direction.
>
> Wbr
> /Eirik
>
> Begin forwarded message:
>
> > From: Eirik Øverby <ltning at anduin.net>
> > Date: 17 November 2018 at 12:24:36 EET
> > To: glewis at FreeBSD.org
> > Subject: Supporting the OpenJDK11 port to FreeBSD
> >
> > Hi,
> >
> > we're a company that hosts all our code (payment- and authentication
> stuff) on FreeBSD/Tomcat and we're being asked by our devs when we can have
> OpenJDK9^H10^H^H11 support. Before you ask - no, none of them are capable
> of porting anything - they couldn't care less about the platform.
> >
> > What would be the correct way to offer monetary (or other) support to
> the FreeBSD/Java project in such a way that
> > - the money is well spent?
> > - porting efforts can get some priority and attention, soonish?
> >
> > Not sure what kind of support would make a difference here, but we can
> throw all sorts of hardware at the project, and at least a man-month or two
> if that's what it takes.
> >
> > Wbr
> > Eirik Øverby
> > Modirum MDpay
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