Re: join debian java team
Hello Stan,
I would recommand you first to try to fix some bugs in existing
packages, here's the full list of packages and their issues
http://qa.debian.org/developer.php?login=pkg-java-maintainers%40lists.alioth.debian.org
You can then try to package a new program (wish list here:
http://wiki.debian.org/Java/RequestedPackages), but I would go with a
library, they are much easier to package.
Jigsaw is a very interesting project, but so big that you may have an
hard time on it. You'll need to master at least packaging simple
libraries, using Git - to keep track of the vast amount of code - and
compiling C++ code for the JNI bindings. And of course, understand the
fundamentals behind Jigsaw, like the concepts of modularity, classloading...
Ludovic
On 23/03/11 22:24, Niels Thykier wrote:
>
> On 2011-03-23 08:28, Stan Ioan-Eugen wrote:
>> Hello,
>
>> I'm Eugen and I wish that Java has better support in Debian. I use
>> Debian daily on my laptop for more than two years, and up until now I
>> have contributed mostly to l10n-romanian. For about a year I started
>> learning Java, I like the language and I think I can help.
>
>
> Hi and welcome,
>
> A helping hand is always appreciated in improving support for Java in
> Debian.
>
>> I am applying for Debian GSoC and hopefully I will package jigsaw [1]
>> for Debian for this summer, but regardless of that I hope that by fall
>> I am ready and worthy of applying for Debian maintainer.
>
>
> I am not directly involved with the Debian GSoC. Nevertheless that
> sounds like a decent plan. XD
> Feel free to ping me a bit down the road to add support for this stuff
> in javahelper (so I can convince Matthew to do it ^^ )
>
>> I have started reading [0] and I am interested in packaging a small
>> java application for Debian so I am looking for a sponsor. I am
>> looking for something small to get me started and work my way up to
>> more complicated stuff. I am thinking of Selenium IDE [2] which I
>> used a little bit or Squirell-sql. But if there are other more
>> important/urgent things to be done I will be happy to help.
>
>> [0] http://wiki.debian.org/Java
>> [1] http://wiki.debian.org/SummerOfCode2011/Jigsaw
>> [2] http://seleniumhq.org/projects/ide/
>> [3] http://squirrel-sql.sourceforge.net/
>
>> Regards,
>
>
> As I recall squirel-sql is already packed but still missing a sponsor
> and my experience with IDEs is that they tend to be "very complicated" -
> just look at the current status of netbeans. :P
>
> ~Niels
>
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