Ok, Alexei, thanks for your help.
Folks, I would feel happy collaborating with any Harmony expert who is
interested in this project.
On Thu, Mar 20, 2008 at 12:23 AM, Alexei Fedotov
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Maksim,
> As I've already said, you may count on my advise, expertise in drag
> and drop area. I promise doing my best.
>
> From the other side it would be better to claim an Apache committer as
> an official mentor. Let me hint that Alexey Petrenko, Andrey Pavlenko
> and Alexey Ivanov have much more experience with AWT than me, so it
> may be worth asking them first. Also, I'm sorry for taking Apache GSoC
> rules seriously: they require spending 5 hours per week on mentoring
> of each student. If Tharindu quits, I will get more time for
> mentoring, but his assuring start makes me think he won't.
>
> Thanks!
>
>
> On Wed, Mar 19, 2008 at 8:37 PM, Maksim Ananjev
>
>
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Tim, Alexei, thanks for your responses!
> >
> > Well, now I see, that java5 completeness looks much better then java6
> > for a mere sudent project.
> > So the goal is "Implement missing classes and methods of java 5
> > including close to real world set of unit tests to verify the
> > results".
> >
> > As for the mentorship - Alexei, could you please mentor me as far as
> > you are an expert in this area?
> > Other harmony gurus are also welcome.
> >
> >
> > On Wed, Mar 19, 2008 at 11:13 PM, Alexei Fedotov
> > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > > Maxim,
> > > This is great. Just imagine how it would look like in your resume:
> > > "For a master degree I created the first 100% complete open source
> > > Java implementation."
> > >
> > > As for drag and drop support [1] my investigation shows that
> > > completing it might be a bit trickier than one could expect, and could
> > > take a good amount of your time. Tim's report doesn't tell you that a
> > > good amount of availabile code is good for passing unit tests like the
> > > following one, or as good as dead. You may count on my advise in this
> > > area, though my advances [1] are pretty modest.
> > >
> > > try {
> > > myApiMethod(null);
> > > fail("NPE expected");
> > > } catch (NullPointerException) {
> > > /* expected */
> > > }
> > >
> > > [1] http://wiki.apache.org/harmony/Drag_and_Drop
> > >
> > > On Wed, Mar 19, 2008 at 7:23 PM, Maksim Ananjev
> > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > >
> > >
> >
> >
> > > > Hi, Harmony people!
> > > >
> > > > I want to participate in Google Summer Of Code 2008 as a student,
> and
> > > > I have a project in mind, which can be benefitial for Harmony.
> > > >
> > > > I will be happy to complete Class Library up 100% compatibility
> with java6.
> > > >
> > > > Harmony is claimed to have "near 100%" completeness. As far as I
> > > > rememeber, this claim has been made for the last 2 years. It's great
> > > > to have such a high level of comleteness, but the question arises
> "why
> > > > not 100%?". As far as I know, Harmony evangelists all over the world
> > > > often face such a tough question.
> > > >
> > > > So, I want to have the following fun this summer:
> > > >
> > > > 1. Identify what classes and methods are unimplemented in comparison
> > > > with Java 6 documentation
> > > > 2. implement them :)
> > > >
> > > > There is a project of enabling FreeCol in the list of proposed
> > > > projects. Of course, I will have to collaborate with the guy engaged
> > > > in this project when it comes to java.image.io classes.
> > > >
> > > > I will be glad to hear from Harmony gurus in this list whether it is
> > > > possible to comlete class library in 3 months and who is willing to
> be
> > > > the mentor for such a project,
> > > >
> > > > P.S. About myself: I run for Master's degree in Physics in
> Novosibirsk
> > > > State Unoversity. I have some experience in Java and C++. I
> > > > contributed to Harmony VM JIT-compiler: powerful optimization called
> > > > "operator strengh reduction"[1] and some perfomance-improving
> fixes. I
> > > > am now working on the vectorization support for Harmony jit
> compiler.
> > > > I hope to have it done this spring.
> > > >
> > > > [1]https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HARMONY-5090
> > > >
> > > > --
> > > > Maksim
> > > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > --
> > > With best regards,
> > > Alexei
> > >
> >
> >
> >
> > --
> > Maksim
> >
>
>
>
> --
> With best regards,
> Alexei
>
--
Maksim
