Preparation for a porters group proposal (Re: Maintaining ports (was Re: Support for Netscape/Mozilla plug-in on Linux AMD64 native platform))

[Jonathan Springer]

Dalibor Topic wrote:

> Jonathan Springer wrote:
> 
>> I am interested.  Thanks,
> 
> Thanks for offering your help, Jonathan.
> 
> In order to be an 'Initial Member' of a group you need to already have 
> member status inside OpenJDK, i.e. be on one of the existing teams, 
> according to the interim governance rules.
> 
> I know that you're working on the mipsel-linux port, which is something 
> I'd love to see in the porters group, but I have no idea if you are 
> already officially a Member of OpenJDK yet.

No, you're right.

> If you are not yet a Member, no worries, Mark Reinhold, David Herron and 
> Tom Marble (thanks guys!) have kindly offered to be Initial Members of 
> the Group, so that bootstrapping requirement for the proposal of the 
> group is already fulfilled.

Great, thanks.

> I'd be happy though to assist you with a proposal for a mipsel-linux 
> port as soon as the group is created (proposal + two weeks time for 
> discussion + a vote by IGB), though, and that should get you initiated 
> as a member.

Sounds good, I will revisit this then.

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