Hello,
Excuse me for being thick, but I felt like I could help (not an easy thing to
extend an offer for (My free time (my wife's not happy with the lack there
of)). But I have been look for a way to contribute to linux and I thought help
Blackdown would be killer. So I gather up some motivation and wrote a response
to Juergen call below. Well I know we are busy, so I gave it a couple of
days... nothing. So I though maybe this was the wrong approach, I'll try a
simpler one and offer to aid in testing (He mentioned how many combinations it
takes (and the 10,000+ tests required by the JCK validation)). Well I thought
for sure they could use help there or at least the could point me to a set of
tasks that show me what I need to know (can or can't do) to help out. But still
nothing.
So finally a third email was sent, asking if he (Juergen) was the right person
to address inquires to. At this point I was expect the thanks but no thanks
response. Nothing. So I said maybe he is really busy and/or on holiday so I
have just let it sit. Still nothing. The last one being sent (8/18/99).
I'm not looking for a bunch of me too's added to my message (and/or flames).
I'm just wondering (from the blackdown team) how the selection process works.
Is there another mailing list that I have overlooked. Is there minimum number
of bug request required to be considered for the team. Do you have to prove
that you can compile the source before your consider worthy (we're not worthy).
Is there someone I need to send a resume to (and/or call)?
Again I tried to find other avenues to pursue this on, and I started to think
how large is the group? How does it grow? Who do ya gotta know?
I have solid background (fall '97) with Java and have been network programing
in C for years (early 90's). I have a large application written in Java that I
need to get working on Linux and was hoping to help the team in the process. I
have been using/developing on Linux/UNIX since late 80's.
Cheers Tod Matola....
Sr Systems Analyst
OCLC
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://purl.oclc.org/net/tod
Juergen Kreileder wrote:
> The JDK 1.1.8 is nearly finished (the remaining problem is the native
> threads vm).
> The next JDK 1.2 release will be 1.2.1 because AFAIK there still is no
> JCK testsuite for 1.2.2.
> Other stuff we currently work on are: JAI, Java3D, JMF, plugins for
> 1.1 (to be released with the JDK 1.1.8) and 1.2.
>
> This is quite a lot of stuff, so if you would like to help please
> contact me. You should have some basic knowledge of Java, but what is
> more important is C. I really would like to hear from people who can
> do low level X programming (I don't think Sun will fix the color
> depths problems soon), pthreads programming (with some knowledge of
> the LinuxThreads internals), and/or network programming.
> Please reply only if really intend to actively work on the JDK, I'm
> really tired of 'volunteers' who never contribute anything.
>
> Juergen
>
> --
> Juergen Kreileder, Blackdown Java-Linux Porting Team
> http://www.blackdown.org/java-linux.html
>
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