Re: [gentoo-java] Programming projects for people who want to contribute to improving Java on Gentoo

[Petteri Räty]

Petteri Räty wrote:
> We get a lot of people wanting to contribute so let's see if someone on
> the mailing list is interested in attacking one of the following problems:
>
> 1. A tool to automatically find targets from build.xml files. This is
> basically done by checking which targets run javadoc, junit, jar etc.
>
> 2. Port the maven patches from JPackage to Gentoo.
> http://overlays.gentoo.org/proj/java/wiki/Maven_Notes
>
> 3. Write a GUI configuration tool for Java on Gentoo
> To for example configure jdk or java options per application
>
> Just contact me (betelgeuse) on #gentoo-java in Freenode and I can give
> you the more info/specs on howto implement these. Of course we still
> need more people doing the ebuild maintenance too.
>
> Regards,
> Petteri
>

Some of these projects can be turned in to Google Summer of Code
projects so if you are a student, this is a change to earn some money too.

Regards,
Petteri