amber is moving to Git, GitHub and Skara

Hi all, You might have heard that there is an OpenJDK project named Skara evaluating and trialing using Git for OpenJDK and GitHub for hosting the repositories [1]. We have been asked to try out Git, GitHub and the Skara tooling, as a means of validating, and to provide feedback about the Project Skara effort. There are already a number of OpenJDK projects using Git, GitHub and Skara: - Loom - Panama - Valhalla - Metropolis - Portola - Lanai - OpenJFX - OpenJMC A transition entails switching to Git as an SCM [2], and the repository would be hosted on GitHub [3]. After the transition, the current Mercurial repository would no longer be updated. There is already a read-only mirror of Amber in place [4], you can it use to try out Git and some of the tooling, though submitting pull requests and pushing will not work (as it is a read-only mirror). Project Amber will transition to Git, GitHub and Skara starting tomorrow April 14th. We also suggest we adopt GitHub's pull request workflow together with the bots from project Skara. Please starting from tomorrow start using repo [4] as the reference repo for Amber. Adopting pull requests and the Skara bots means that the review process would work partly through GitHub. In particular, all changes must start out as pull requests. Skara automatically generates webrevs, "RFR" emails and supports bi-directional syncing between mailing lists and GitHub for those that prefer using webrev and the mailing lists. If you are unfamiliar with GitHub and pull requests, I suggest checking out GitHub's guide [5]. Note that project Skara also provides CLI tools for interacting with GitHub for those that prefer working from a terminal. You can find more info about these tools on the Skara wiki page [6]. If you have any comments or questions regarding this transition, please reply to this thread. Thanks, [1] : https://openjdk.java.net/jeps/369 [2] : https://git-scm.com/ [3] : https://github.com/ [4] : https://github.com/openjdk/amber [5] : https://guides.github.com/introduction/flow/ [6] : https://wiki.openjdk.java.net/display/SKARA/Skara