Il giorno gio, 10/01/2008 alle 20.03 +0100, Mark Wielaard ha scritto:
> No worries. We know trolls and how to deal with them.
> We do have a flow chart that people have to follow when contributing to
> GNU Classpath. It is all very formal really:
> http://gnu.wildebeest.org/~mark/patch.png
Oh, de
And in case anyone is under any illusions, Sun's record of fixing bugs (and
not re-breaking them) is poor.
The number #1 voted bug* in their bug database has been unfixed for over 5
YEARS!
-Archie
* http://bugs.sun.com/view_bug.do?bug_id=4670071
--
Archie L. Cobbs
Andy Tripp wrote:
Also, as FOSS developers start to contribute
to OpenJDK, I'm already seeing suggestions for changes where the
rationale seems to be "because that's
how FOSS projects do things", with of course the underlying assumption
that that makes it a reasonable approach.
That's how discu
Hi,
I've nothing to add to the defense of GNU Classpath beyond what Roman
and Andrew have already said. Instead I'd like to point out that Andy
Tripp isn't new to this, and nobody should waste any more time:
http://www.javalobby.org/java/forums/t53790.html
Rob.
snip...
With
> the closed approach the developers (or vendors) have to take over 100%
> responsibility (because the end user has no way to interact with the
> development), which usually makes things very formal and slow, where the
> open approach relies very much on the end users reporting problem
On 10/01/2008, Andy Tripp <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >
> >
> > Comments and criticisms welcome.
> >
> I suppose this is more of a troll than a criticism, sorry about that.
>
That's okay -- as Mark says, it's nothing new.
> > Classpath bugs don't
> > have such administration issues due to
> > it
Hi Andy,
> > Comments and criticisms welcome.
> >
> I suppose this is more of a troll than a criticism, sorry about that.
>
> > Classpath bugs don't
> > have such administration issues due to
> > its longer history as a FOSS project and existing community-oriented fun
> > development paradigm.
Hi Andy,
On Thu, 2008-01-10 at 12:22 -0500, Andy Tripp wrote:
> >
> I suppose this is more of a troll than a criticism, sorry about that.
No worries. We know trolls and how to deal with them.
We do have a flow chart that people have to follow when contributing to
GNU Classpath. It is all very
Comments and criticisms welcome.
I suppose this is more of a troll than a criticism, sorry about that.
Classpath bugs don't
have such administration issues due to
its longer history as a FOSS project and existing community-oriented fun
development paradigm.
Wouldn't it be more accurate to
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