Re: join debian java team
Indeed!
And being familiar with the openjdk packaging would be great!
Sylvestre
Le jeudi 24 mars 2011 à 23:41 +0100, Ludovic Claude a écrit :
> 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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