Re: Status updates [Was: Re: ...]

1999-04-22 Thread Cees de Groot
Wes Biggs wrote: > > All your arguments are factually right. But pyschology is at work here, and > > especially in an extremely important project like JDK porting (from my > > perspective, it is the second most important project after the kernel and at > > times more important), you have to acco

Re: Status updates [Was: Re: ...]

1999-04-21 Thread Michael Emmel
Wes Biggs wrote: > > All your arguments are factually right. But pyschology is at work here, and > > especially in an extremely important project like JDK porting (from my > > perspective, it is the second most important project after the kernel and at > > times more important), you have to acco

Re: Status updates [Was: Re: ...]

1999-04-21 Thread Matt Welsh
I think the more relevant (and pragmatic) question is: What can we do to make the Blackdown team status more visible? Clearly many questions and concerns would be eliminated if the web pages had a regular status update -- this would help you to fend off flames and persistent questions as well. I

Re: Status updates [Was: Re: ...]

1999-04-21 Thread Michael Sinz
On Wed, 21 Apr 1999 10:18:36 -0700, Wes Biggs wrote: > [...] they've [Sun] >*increased* Blackdown's time-to-market by requiring JCK compatibility (I'm not >arguing that this should be eliminated, just that this is the effect it has had). That is not really true - Yes, passing the JCK is extra wo

Re: Status updates [Was: Re: ...]

1999-04-21 Thread Wes Biggs
> All your arguments are factually right. But pyschology is at work here, and > especially in an extremely important project like JDK porting (from my > perspective, it is the second most important project after the kernel and at > times more important), you have to account for psychology, whethe

Status updates [Was: Re: ...]

1999-04-21 Thread Cees de Groot
Chris Abbey wrote: > How so? You're multi-billion dollar international corporation is staking > it's bottom line on java2 for Linux? You were asssigned a project and sold > your prof on the idea of doing it on Linux and in Java, but absolutely > _have_ to have the latest and greatest whiz-bang fe