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 > > > > -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
