It's been almost a month since I last did any development work on Pack200. I submitted https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HARMONY-2246 with the work that I'd done, and after a few false starts, it was committed :-)
I'm waiting for a new module to be created and for the pack200 code to be moved there so that I can start work again. (I've commented on this before, and recently raised https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HARMONY-2479 to record this separate issue.) Given the problems that I've had with generating patches, I really don't want to start any work until the re-org happens; generating patches once there's refactorings generally seems to fail quite badly in my past experience. As a result, I've pretty much been sitting twiddling my thumbs since before Nov 20th. One other possibility would be for me to move on-going development of this onto a different version control system, and then when it's finished, I can contribute it in bulk back to Harmony. I'd prefer not to do this on the whole but I'm wondering if it would be more efficient all round if I did this; that way, I get the benefit of performing smaller commits and I have something that I can write to directly rather than generating cumbersome patches. If anyone's got any thoughts on the matter, please let me know. Alex.
