Mark Wielaard wrote:
>
> 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.
Yeah. Wish I could hack on free software full time :)
> > 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.
I don't know whether someone has already addressed this, but when I
originally wrote (a lot of) the Collections stuff I got pulled away by
DayJob work and transatlantic relocation and getting married; the
commenting of that code left quite a lot to be desired. I think
many/most of the necessary comments were in there somewhere, but not in
all the places they needed to be (eg many of the comments that should
have been in List were actually in AbstractList). If you're looking for
somewhere where commenting work is really needed, that may be a place to
look.
> 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>
<shameless plug>
See also my recent post; if my japicompat tool is legal for Classpath to
use, it would be a good way to make sure that we cover all of 1.1.
Someone previously wrote a script which compared Classpath to jdk1.1 and
to jdk1.2, but both had far too high false-positive ratios to be
useful... jdk1.1 got lots of errors from stuff that we've implemented
from 1.2 and jdk1.2 had too much missing to see what was actually
*wrong*. That's what I wrote japicompat for.
</shameless plug>
> 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.
Usually for Classpath that's Paul Fisher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>. You might want
to try getting in touch with him.
HTH,
Stuart.
