Contributions
My contributions to open-source projects other than my own are listed below. A separate page lists my security contributions in more detail. Contributions that required significant time and effort are marked with a star (★).
A note on names: The JDK Project develops the reference implementation of the Java Platform, Standard Edition, which is released as an OpenJDK Build. The OpenJFX Project develops the JavaFX cross-platform application framework, which is released as a Software Development Kit and a set of Java module archives. The OpenJDK Community includes both of these projects and many others related to the Java Platform.
In Progress
- NetBeans ★
- Build downloads fail due to response code 503
- Opened on 2022-06-07
Completed
2023
Having created secure packages of my development tools in 2022, one of my goals this year is to create fully reproducible builds of the OpenJDK and OpenJFX packages that I publish.
- OpenJFX
- Let JavaFX be built on unknown architectures
- 9 added, 4 deleted on 2023-08-11
- OpenJFX ★
- Enable reproducible builds with SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH
- 141 added, 31 deleted on 2023-06-20
- NetBeans
- Import local schema to avoid DNS lookup in build
- 1 added, 1 deleted on 2023-01-27
2022
I continued the security work I started in 2021 by making related contributions to the JDK, Apache NetBeans, and Apache Tomcat projects. These changes allowed me to create strictly-confined packages of my entire development environment: OpenJDK, Maven, and NetBeans. Two years after first reading about SolarWinds, I’m beginning to feel slightly less worried about supply-chain attacks on the software that I use for my development work.
- 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
- JDK ★
- 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
- Software Package Data Exchange
- 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 Archive Program
- 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 community 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 members of the OpenJFX 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 the JDK and JavaFX.
- JDK ★
- 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