Setting up the OpenJDK IcedTea Project

[Andrew John Hughes]

Looks like we just crossed mails... :)

2009/3/11 Mark Reinhold <mr at sun.com>:
>> Date: Mon, 09 Mar 2009 22:48:58 +0000
>> From: Andrew John Hughes <gnu_andrew at member.fsf.org>
>
>> I'd like a jdk7 forest for the work on IcedTea7.  I didn't know we'd
>> have the option of having more than one.  I quite like the idea of
>> having a forest for 6 too, but I'll let others on this list chime in
>> on whether they would be interested in taking this route or not.
>
> Okay, I'll just create a jdk7 forest for now.  I'll create it as a clone
> of the current 7 master forest, unless you want something else.
>

Yes, sounds good - I meant to mention that I wanted it prepopulated
but forgot...

>>> - Mercurial users: Who needs push access? If they aren't already
>>>  registered in the OpenJDK infrastructure then I'll arrange for
>>>  invitations to be sent to them.
>>
>> Well, me to begin with :) I already have an OpenJDK username of
>> 'andrew' from the challenge, assuming that's still active.
>
> Yes, it's still active.
>

Confirmed - I've updated the CVMI project over the last few days.

>> For others, I'd like to wait for some feedback from those working on 6.
>>
>>> - Mailing list: Do you want an icedtea-dev list, or do you just want
>>>  to use distro-pkg-dev? Do you want hg push notices to be sent to
>>>  whichever list you choose?
>>
>> I'm happy enough using distro-pkg-dev for discussion as we already do.
>> An additional list for commits would be good (e.g. icedtea-commits) and
>> we could then maybe also send traffic from the IcedTea repositories
>> there too.
>
> Okay, I'll create icedtea-changes for this purpose.
>

Thanks.

>>> - Do you have any initial content for your main Project web page?
>>>  If so, please send it to me in simple XHTML. Dalibor, in his role
>>>  as Moderator, can always update it later on. (We're working to allow
>>>  any Project author to modify that Project's web content, but we're
>>>  not quite there yet.) If you don't send me anything then I'll create
>>>  something plain and simple for now.
>>
>> I'll try and come up with something tomorrow, probably along the same
>> lines as the proposal.  It'll mainly point to
>> http://icedtea.classpath.org/ as there's already a lot of information
>> there.
>
> Please send your initial content to Dalibor and he'll add the page.
>
> Once that's done then I'll announce the creation of the Project.
>

Attached to my last mail. I'll point Dalibor to it.

> - Mark
>

Thanks,
-- 
Andrew :-)

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