Openj9: Curate GitHub topics related to OpenJ9

[mstoodle]

Currently, github.com/eclipse/openj9 does not have any About topics registered for it, and the related topics that some repositories have selected (#openj9, #eclipse-openj9, #eclipse-openj9-vm) have no descriptions associated with them.

I suggest we decide which topics we should curate (rather than all of them) so people can standardize on one topic. I suggest #eclipse-openj9 even though it's a bit longer than #openj9, but I'm willing to be convinced otherwise.

We should also decide on the list of topics we think we should list for our repository and then ask the Eclipse webmaster (who owns the org) to add those topics for us (I don't think we can do it ourselves).

I think we should add some description to at least the tag we like by adding it per https://github.com/github/explore/blob/master/CONTRIBUTING.md

@sharon-wang suggested #java #jvm #openjdk to which we should add our named topic (e.g. #eclipse-openj9 ). Should we add any other topics?

Thanks to @sharon-wang for making this suggestion on our slack!

[DanHeidinga]

See also earlier discussion on this started by @fjeremic: https://github.com/eclipse/openj9/issues/5034

I think it stalled previously on getting a bugzilla opened for the eclipse webmaster. Which we should just do after ~a week of discussion on this. Tentatively aim to have it opened by Wed Aug 26?

[fjeremic]

I totally forgot about that issue. I support using the list we came up with in #5034 as well and I agree on just pulling the trigger on this on Aug. 26th so it doesn't get lost again. Thanks!

[mstoodle]

Damn, I looked before opening this one but somehow missed that issue.

Scraping the list from that issue's description for everyone's convenience:

• compiler
• garbage-collector
• gc
• java
• jit
• jvm
• interpreter
• runtime
• virtual-machine

To which I'll add

• eclipse-openj9

Is anyone not ok with #openjdk being there? OpenJ9 works with OpenJDK, but I have a slight concern "someone" will be annoyed if this project associates itself with OpenJDK.

[fjeremic]

Is anyone not ok with #openjdk being there? OpenJ9 works with OpenJDK, but I have a slight concern "someone" will be annoyed if this project associates itself with OpenJDK.

There is 12 occurrences of "OpenJDK" on our README and About description so I don't see why that might be a problem. I'm indifferent though.

[DanHeidinga]

OpenJ9 is not OpenJDK though. While it builds with the OpenJDK class libraries, we should be clear that the JVMs are separate. I'd prefer not to tag this repo with openjdk.

[DanHeidinga]

@mstoodle are you ready to proceed with this proposal?

[mstoodle]

Yeah, thanks for the poke. I'll open the bug today.

[mstoodle]

Created https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=566611

[mstoodle]

The topics are now present on our repo's front page!

[fjeremic]

Thanks for this. If there isn't anything left we can likely close this and #5034.