> -----Original Message----- > From: zoe slattery [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Tuesday, March 07, 2006 7:50 AM > To: harmony-dev@incubator.apache.org > Subject: Component status pages (was:Re: any donations expected for awt > and swing?) > > Tim Ellison wrote: > > Geir Magnusson Jr wrote: > > > >> Tim Ellison wrote: > >> > >>> Probably best to put the 'concerted work in progress' description on > the > >>> wiki, so anyone can join in; the website status page was intended to > be > >>> more of a current state of the code overview. We should also start to > >>> set ourselves some goals, in terms of applications to run, etc. > >>> > >> Why not have "started" on the webpage, and then a like to the wiki page > >> if there is one? > >> > >> Or just encourage people to ask here on the dev list... > >> > > > > Yes, that would be fine. If somebody wants to hack the wiki for module > > status pages, I'll volunteer to point to the website to them. > > > To start with (because it is easier for people to update) I've > replicated Tim's table on the Wiki > (here:http://wiki.apache.org/harmony/component_development_status). I've > linked one component (j.l.mangement) to a seperate page and marked it as > "started". How about other people marking up the areas that they are > working in? [Nathan Beyer] I added a LUNI page [1]. I've been trying to implement and stub out all of the missing Java 5 stuff, so I've put some of my information up there.
[1] http://wiki.apache.org/harmony/LUNI > > Regards, > > Tim > > > > > >>> If you want to make a start on the wiki page that would be good, or if > >>> anyone else has an idea for tracking intent... > >>> > >>> It's also worth mentioning that I don't believe we should be exclusive > >>> about areas of work within, and contribution to, Harmony. > >>> > >> Absolutely. > >> > >> > >>> While I > >>> understand that the goal is to minimize redundant work, we may find > >>> ourselves in the situation of having more than one implementation of > the > >>> same APIs (we already saw this happen with 'security' and 'security2' > >>> contributions). This is no bad thing as it allows us to evaluate the > >>> best technical option (quickly) and proceed with the combined group of > >>> experts collaborating on a single code base. I hope we can continue > to > >>> do so 'harmoniously'. > >>> > >> Choice and competition is good. This isn't "live or die" competition, > >> but "we can choose best of breed" competition, and we all benefit. > There > >> are no losers. > >> > >> geir > >> > >> > >>> Regards, > >>> Tim > >>> > >>> karan malhi wrote: > >>> > >>>> Hi, > >>>> > >>>> I am writing the interfaces for the javax.accessibility package. Some > of > >>>> the interfaces are dependent on classes from the awt package. Are we > >>>> expecting any donations for awt, swing packages? > >>>> If donations are not expected then what approach should I take? > Should I > >>>> start writing stuff for awt and swing (on which accessibility > depends > >>>> on) so that accessibility classes compile during a build in harmony? > >>>> Please guide me here. > >>>> > >>>> Secondly, once a volunteer starts working on a "Missing" module as > >>>> stated on > >>>> > http://incubator.apache.org/harmony/subcomponents/classlibrary/status.html > >>>> > >>>> , should the status be changed to something else like "Work in > progress" > >>>> or something? > >>>> > >>>> > > > >
