On Mon, Sep 19, 2005 at 11:06:55PM +0100, Hiten Pandya wrote: > I can totally understand this, given that I have done development in JAVA > before, for commercial purposes. It would be nice if more people can > support the JDK patchkit producers in fixing JAVA support. > > Bill, since you were helping FreeBSD at one time with JAVA, it would be > nice if *you* lent a hand to the JDK patchkit producers and us in > strengthening JAVA on DragonFly. ;-)
I recently stop Linux kernele development for the moment and I can come back to a BSD like dfBSD and do Java/pthreads development again, but I have reservations. If I do come back, I'd like some political backing from the project or Firefly so that things can happen again with a clearly accountable authority and a blessing to how this project can continue. I don't want another FreeBSD Foundation thing happening again and it might be in everybody's interest to clearly commericalize JVM development because of this with the side effect that it's free for individual users or something like that. I've been seeing some breakdown in this community and I'm going to wait a bit before I commit any energy to it. Part of the problem is the use of CVS style central repository in which a single authority is control. Folks can't soft fork which hurt development of both user and kernel spaces when lead developers conflict with one another. It's been brought to my attention that there are some development issues that haven't yet to be resolved along the lines of that. I'd to see an effect political mechanism to resolves these issues without being overly authoritarian. Ideally, strong and believable leadership should suggest solution and solve this problem without "Theo-izing" or "FreeBSD Foundation-ifying" this project. My fractional dollar comments... bill
