Hi Joey,
On Mon, Jun 12, 2000 at 11:08:50AM -0400, Joseph C. Lesh wrote:
> I thought I'd take a minute to introduce myself as ya'll start noticing
> that someone new is working with you. My name is Joey Lesh and I'm
> spending the summer camping out at the FSF lab at MIT as an internship.
Welcome. Seems like a nice internship.
> I decided that I wanted to work on Classpath and "TA DAH" here I am.
> Right now I'm going through the comments making sure everything is
> ship shape in there and familiarizing myself with what's up. I won't
> really bore you with the details of that stuff (it's all spelling,
> grammar, and accuracy work) but you might see that I'll check in new
> versions of your code. All I'm doing is fixing little comment stuff,
> although it's slim pickings in there; the comments seem well written :).
Great. Since my native language is not English I am sure you will find all
kinds of embarrassing mistakes in my comments :) Documenting everything
is the most boring and time intensive work, so if you want to check all
documentation that would be very welcomed.
> Later on I'll start working on actual coding. I've done some work on
> an email client in Java and I thought that I might implement the
> javax.mail API since I already have code for portions of it. I'm sure
> that's pretty far down in the priority list but let me know what you
> think. Otherwise I'll take your queue [sic] on where to start.
Please look at the TODO file in CVS if you haven't done that yet.
I was just making a list of small things added in 1.3 that could be done.
If you want to do any of these please yell:
- Add new Collections thingies from 1.3
<http://java.sun.com/products/jdk/1.3/docs/guide/collections/changes3.html>
- Look at new Network thingies from 1.3
<http://java.sun.com/products/jdk/1.3/docs/guide/net/enhancements.html>
- Shutdown hooks
<http://java.sun.com/products/jdk/1.3/docs/guide/lang/hook-design.html>
(Needs VM support)
- Dynamic Proxy Classes
<http://java.sun.com/products/jdk/1.3/docs/guide/reflection/proxy.html>
Or any of the things mentioned on the 1.3 new features page that are not yet
in Classpath: <http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.3/docs/relnotes/features.html>
Although it would also be very helpfull if someone goes over all the 1.1
things to see if everything is implemented in Classpath before we move on
to all these new nice 1.2 and 1.3 things by checking the 1.1 classlist:
<http://java.sun.com/products/jdk/1.1/docs/relnotes/classlist.html>
And integrating the classpath classes and the libgcj classes also has high
priority. See <http://sourceware.cygnus.com/java/merge-status.html>
and <http://www.mail-archive.com/classpath%40gnu.org/msg02267.html>.
But please work on something that you really like and feel you can be
productive in.
> Speaking of making changes, I need someone to give me priviliges to check
> in code.
I am not sure who arranges this. Normally someone has to check that all
the right papers have been filed with the FSF. But if you want to commit
something while you don't have commit access yet please feel free to
post it to the list and someone will commit it for you.
> So, yeah, hi. Anything I should know that isn't covered in the
> online docs??? Also, this is my first free software project with
> people I don't know so if I make some sort egregious social blunder
> feel free to whack me over the head with a two by four or other
> heavy blunt object and as soon as I recover from the blow I'll try
> not to make the same mistake again :)
I am also pretty new but found out that people are generally nice
about anything. The only thing you have to realize is that not everybody
has that much time so it might sometimes take a couple of days before
you get an answer. And normally the social rules should be documented
on the webpages. If they aren't then they should be added to make
live easier for new people like yourself. So if you find out something that
seems to be common knowledge, but you didn't know about it, please document.
Have fun,
Mark
