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Hey folks, |
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As has been the case for some time, the Java team is still atrociously |
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understaffed. Below, I'll outline a few 'positions' I'd like see filled. |
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I'm using the term really loosely, and mean it more as in the sense of |
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'these are things I'd like people to be working on'. If current devs are |
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interested, that'd be great, but we're also willing to mentor some fresh |
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blood. |
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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 general |
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maintence of our packages. I'd expect them to be familiar with Gentoo |
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and Java (surprise!). If they are not already, they will need to become |
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familiar with the ins and outs of how Java is handled on Gentoo. |
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Familiarity with ant, which is used for a large majority of our |
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packages, would be very useful. |
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* JBoss maintainer |
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JBoss is a pretty important app in the enterprise world of Java. It has |
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been pretty unmaintained for some time now, and could use some love. |
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Because of the nature of this beast, I would want someone that uses |
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JBoss on a daily basis, preferably in an enterprise setting, to be the |
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type of person to maintain this. |
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* Jetty maintainer |
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Jetty is a web container, like tomcat and resin. It also has been pretty |
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unmaintained in recent times. Preferably, the person who picks this |
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fella up uses jetty on a daily basis in an enterprise type setting. |
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* Maven maintainer |
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Currently, our package for maven is a binary package, and we don't |
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support using maven from an ebuild. Ideally, we would be able to package |
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it from source, and would support building packages with it. There |
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however, are quite a few barriers to this. I outline them in detail in |
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one of my blog posts, under 2a and 2b: |
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http://planet.gentoo.org/developers/nichoj/2006/05/04/java_ideas_for_summer_of_code |
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* Free Java Hackers |
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One of illustrious users has been working on working away at getting GCJ |
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usable as a JDK, in the sense that it can be to build our packages. We |
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do have a handful of other free Java VMs in portage, like kaffe, |
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sablevm, jamvm, etc. If people were interested, I think it'd be great if |
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we could get our packages building using these other VMs. |
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* Eclipse / Netbeans maintainers |
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Eclipse and Netbeans are the primary IDEs for Java. Eclipse is well kept |
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for the moment, but the plugins haven't been. Netbeans needs a bit of |
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love though, as it hasn't been updated in awhile. |
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So, if one or more of these sounds intersting and like something you'd |
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want to do? For starters, you should take a gander over at our project |
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page, and checkout various documentation we have: |
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http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/java/ |
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Other things you can do: |
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* Join our mailing list, gentoo-java. It is pretty low-traffic. |
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Information about joining lists is at: |
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http://www.gentoo.org/main/en/lists.xml |
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* Lurk in our IRC channel, #gentoo-java on irc.freenode.net. It's also |
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fairly low-traffic, so don't expect immediate responses. |
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Hope to hear from some peeps :-D |
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