>>> Richard Stallman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 13-Apr-01 6:42:08 PM >>>
>But gnu-java is normally asked to decide whether
>to mention a package and make a link to it--as you
>recognized:
Ok. The java-software web page says this:
If you would like to contribute additional Java programs
to the GNU project, please contact <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>.
Which doesn't really explain things clearly. It probably needs to say
a little bit more about what exactly those programs are being
contributed to (ie: they're not being contributed, necessarily, to the
GNU project).
>>The current system is accepting java programs
>>and listing them on our website as a service to
>>the java community...
>That is a much easier question than deciding whether we
>want it as a GNU package; the criteria are simpler and the
<threshold is lower. It does not make sense to go to the
>evaluators team for this kind of question. We don't give
>such questions to the evaluators team for non-Java programs;
> the webmasters handle it.
>I think we should not change the way we handle this job.
I agree. It seems that listing these packages is a good contribution
to the free software and java communities.
>>My own view is that the GNU project should try to offer
>>something more to the java community. A number of projects
>>and completed programs and libraries which provide GNU
>>java in a coherant and sensible form.
>That might be a useful project, if people want to work on it.
>But we should continue making links to non-GNU Java programs,
>and gnu-java may as well keep handling that.
Ok. Here's what I'm going to do:
- add myself to the gnu-java list so that aaron has some help
- create a savannah project for gnu java webpages
- update the web pages in the way I previously described
Nic Ferrier
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