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Re: Co-maintaining Kaffe



Adam Majer <adamm@galacticasoftware.com> writes:

> Arnaud Vandyck wrote:
>> Take an account on Alioth (it'll be the same as your Debian login), drop
>> me a mail when you have your account and I'll add you to pkg-java
>> project. After that, we can setup a separate mailing list, then upload
>> kaffe with you and me as Uploaders and the list as the official
>> maintainer. I'll setup a cvs module for kaffe and also, if possible, a
>> cvs notification system.
>
> Why not make debian-java the maintainer of Kaffe? We have little traffic
> here anyway and Kaffe is a rather important part of the Java in the
> Debian project. If and when the traffic on this list becomes excessive,
> then you can make debian-kaffe, but until that happens, I really think
> it might be better to have debian-java the maintainer for Kaffe.

alioth make it possible non-dd to join the effort... and two young sexy
hackers already proposed to help... ;-)

if you want to help kaffe in debian, you can join
pkg-java-kaffe@lists.alioth.debian.org

>> Maybe our first step in co-maintaining kaffe could be to resolve the
>> problem with building kaffe on other arches. What do you think of my
>> proposal to remove all outdated builds, then only build kaffe on i386
>> and powerpc, and then, when kaffe will be in testing, we try to rebuild
>> it on 'any' arches.
>
> It only builds in i386 and ppc anyway. Since Kaffe is not in Sarge, it
> only takes 2 days for it to migrate. Then it can be fixed for other
> archs in Sid *before* a new upstream is released.

don't we have to remove the outdated build from the archive? or maybe
donwgrade the FTBFS bugs on the 7 arches?

Thanks for helping,

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