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Ted Kosan wrote: |
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> Joshua wrote: |
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> Two of the difficulties that seem to be contributing to the Java team's |
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> understaffing problem are: |
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> 1) A significant number of Java developers do not know very much about Linux |
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> and of those who do, not many of them are familiar with Gentoo. |
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> 2) Of those Java developers who are aware of Gentoo and its solid support for |
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> Java, many of them do not have enough Linux skills to successfully install it. |
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I totally agree. Usually, you don't get the right combination of Java |
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and Linux skills in folks that are interested in helping out. |
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> After thinking about the understaffing problem for a few months, I have come up |
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> with an idea that may help solve these difficulties. |
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> I am one of the community leaders on Sun's java.net site ( http://java.net ) |
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> and I have put together a "Java Distribution" LiveCD ( called JDOS, |
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> https://jdos.dev.java.net ) which is based on Gentoo. JDOS is ready for its |
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> initial release and the last thing I am waiting on is for Sun's new |
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> Linux-friendly JDK files to be added to the portage tree. |
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> One advantage that the java.net site has is that thousands of Java developers |
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> visit it each day to read blogs, articles and other news items. |
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> As soon as it is released, my plan is to write some articles and blog entries |
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> on JDOS ( and its Gentoo foundation ) for publication on java.net's front page. |
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> My hope is that a number of Java developers will find the CD to be useful and |
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> then be interested in having their own Java software, or the latest version of |
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> their favorite Java applications, included on the LiveCD. |
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This is very cool! I wish I had heard about it earlier. One of the cool |
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things we had wanted to do, but never quite got to was a live cd showing |
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off our Java packages. In particular, it'd be nice to have a 'developer' |
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cd, loaded with netbeans, eclipse, tomcat, etc, etc. |
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I'll try to give it a whirl sometime this weekend. |
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> Since this will require that the software be placed in the portage tree, I am |
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> hoping that some of these developers can be convinced to join the Gentoo Java |
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> team and learn how to create and maintain packages. |
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That would certainly be great. If there are needs you have in terms of |
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packages, or whatever, don't be afraid to drop a note to this list, or |
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file an appropriate bug. |
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>> * Java generalists |
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>> We have tons of Java packages. It was around 400 or so last time I |
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>> checked. As one can imagine, this kind of number |
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>> generates a pretty constant stream of bugs and version bump requests. |
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>> So, basically I'm looking for some people to help out with |
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>> general maintence of our packages. |
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> I will volunteer to be part of this group. I would have done this a number of |
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> months ago but I had my hands full learning python so that I could figure out |
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> how to use Catalyst properly :-) |
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Very cool. I look forward to it :-D |
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Joshua Nichols |
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Gentoo/Java - Project Lead |
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