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On Friday, September 30, 2016 11:11:40 AM EDT Andrew Savchenko wrote: |
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> For now try to concentrate on technical aspects only: submit |
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> patches or pull requests, start moving your overlay to the tree — |
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> java team should be happy to assist you. |
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There is no Java Team! There are not really any active Java Devs. |
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Thankfully a few have been active (chewi, monsieurp, and fordfrog). Chewi is |
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moving on, mosieurp and fordfrog are busy over long periods of time. They do |
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their parts as they can. One cannot really ask more of them. |
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How can one contribute when there is no one to commit the work or work with? |
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Who is going to review and commit work in an area of the tree they are not |
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familiar with or understand? |
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There is a 3rd quiz for the Java area of the tree. Which I helped make.... |
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Many just simply do not understand the problem, scope, amount of work, or time |
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frame. Much of it has been this way since 2008-2010. There has been some new |
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devs, some efforts over the years but mostly has fallen behind big time. |
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Re-read the post from James Le Cuirt/Chewi. Stop by #gentoo-java, see what is |
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going on. Follow the mailing list, or commits in dev-java. Follow my open PRs, |
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see how long they take to get committed. Now multiply that by hundreds of |
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packages, more eclass changes, removals, etc. |
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There is a considerable amount of ongoing Java Development in the world. The |
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less that goes on regarding Java on Gentoo. The more Gentoo falls behind at |
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least in that one area. |
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William L. Thomson Jr. |
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