Contributions
My contributions to open-source projects other than my own are listed below. Those that required more time and effort are marked with a star (⭐️). A separate page lists my security contributions in more detail.
In Progress
- NetBeans ⭐️
- Build downloads fail due to response code 503
- Opened on 2022-06-07
- OpenJFX ⭐️
- Enable reproducible builds with SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH
- Opened on 2021-03-30
Completed
2023
Having created secure packages of my development tools in 2022, my goals this year are to finish the two long-running contributions shown in progress above and to work on my own open-source projects.
- NetBeans
- Import local schema to avoid DNS lookup in build
- 1 added, 1 deleted on 2023-01-07
2022
I continued the security work I started in 2021 by making related contributions to the OpenJDK, NetBeans, and Tomcat projects. These changes allowed me to create strictly-confined Snap packages of my entire toolchain: OpenJDK, OpenJFX, Maven, and NetBeans. Two years after first reading about SolarWinds, I’m now starting to feel slightly less worried about supply-chain attacks on the software I use in development.
- Tomcat
- Allow reproducible builds of all JDBC JAR files
- 9 added, 3 deleted on 2022-11-21
- NetBeans
- Import local schema to avoid DNS lookup in build
- 272 added, 66 deleted on 2022-11-08
- OpenJDK ⭐️
- Javadoc index descriptions are not deterministic
- 320 added, 2 deleted on 2022-09-21
- NetBeans
- Save cause of download error for BuildException
- 2 added, 1 deleted on 2022-03-26
- SPDX
- Clarify that the license identifier is deprecated
- 1 added, 1 deleted on 2022-01-04
2021
In December 2020, I learned of the SolarWinds attack and became increasingly worried about the software on my system. I started adding features that prevent or detect such attacks to each of the projects I use in my own software development. Those features include basic security measures, such as dependency verification, and longer-term goals, such as verified reproducible builds.
- OpenJFX ⭐️
- Add Gradle dependency verification
- 321 added, 12 deleted on 2021-05-03
- OpenJFX Docs
- Add NETBEANS-3296 link about Javadoc and Sources
- 4 added, 1 deleted on 2021-04-13
- OpenJFX
- LocalDateTimeStringConverterTest fails in Canada
- 1 added, 4 deleted on 2021-03-23
- OpenJFX
- Add Gradle Wrapper Validation Action
- 11 added, 3 deleted on 2021-03-09
- OpenJFX
- Configure Gradle checksum verification
- 1 added, 0 deleted on 2021-02-23
2020
It took all of 2020 for me to complete the JavaFX project that I started in 2019 and to fix the bugs I found while implementing the support for e-paper displays.
- OpenJFX
- zForce touchscreen input device fails when closed and immediately reopened
- 2 added, 2 deleted on 2020-12-14
- OpenJFX
- Fix build of Monocle for Linux
- 1 added, 1 deleted on 2020-12-11
- OpenJFX
- Create a daemon thread for MonocleTimer
- 7 added, 1 deleted on 2020-07-21
- OpenJFX ⭐️
- QuantumRenderer modifies buffer in use by JavaFX Application Thread
- 26 added, 6 deleted on 2020-07-10
- OpenJFX
- Get two bytes for the Linux input event type, not four
- 1 added, 1 deleted on 2020-07-02
- OpenJFX ⭐️
- Add support for e-paper displays on i.MX6 devices
- 236 added, 45 deleted on 2020-04-29
- GitHub
- Change .pdf file type to Portable Document Format
- 1 added, 1 deleted on 2020-02-03
2019
My efforts in 2018 to learn GitHub and the workings of the OpenJDK project were for one purpose: to add JavaFX support for e-paper displays in 2019. I had been working on the feature in my spare time for years, so I was grateful to find the people in the JavaFX project so helpful and welcoming.
- NetBeans Website
- Use KEYS for the link to KEYS
- 1 added, 1 deleted on 2019-11-04
- NetBeans Website
- Add Snap package to download page
- 1 added, 0 deleted on 2019-10-07
- NetBeans Website
- Add JAVA_HOME and ANT_HOME note
- 1 added, 0 deleted on 2019-10-07
- NetBeans
- Add JAVA_HOME and ANT_HOME note
- 4 added, 2 deleted on 2019-10-07
- Adoptium
- Add Client VM to builds for Linux arm32 platform
- 1 added, 1 deleted on 2019-05-11
- OpenJFX ⭐️
- Add support for e-paper displays
- 3,588 added, 2 deleted on 2019-04-16
2018
I got started with Git and GitHub in July 2018 by fixing some typographical errors in the Standard Ebooks edition of Flatland, by Edwin A. Abbott. In October, I started to contribute in earnest by fixing an old pair of font bugs in Java and JavaFX.
- OpenJDK ⭐️
- Need to set the FreeType LCD Filter to reduce fringing
- 3 added, 0 deleted on 2018-10-16 (commit)
- OpenJFX
- Fonts are blurry on Ubuntu 16.04 and Debian 9
- 1 added, 12 deleted on 2018-10-03
- Standard Ebooks
- Remove double occurrence of the word “we”
- 1 added, 1 deleted on 2018-08-04
- Standard Ebooks
- Fix typos
- 1 added, 1 deleted on 2018-07-31