Contributing to the development of openjdk mips port

[Mark Wielaard]

On Thu, 2010-10-21 at 15:00 +0800, LIU Qi wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 20, 2010 at 09:28:23AM +0200, Mark Wielaard wrote:
>  > And if you cannot currently because any legal/political issues that need
>  > to be resolved first and/or setting up a separate tree somewhere is a
>  > problem, we would be happy to host it at http://icedtea.classpath.org/hg
>  > where the zero and shark ports also originated. The setup is already
>  > done, so it would just be adding another repository and/or forest.
> Thank you so much for your offering. Our MIPS port is based on OpenJDK.
> We are working on porting them to the icedtea. And we are glad if you
> could provide the repository resource to us. Could you provide me some
> more detailed information about accounts and so on, please? Thanks.

We try to keep the hassle to a minimum. As long as all source code is
distributed under a Free Software license and it is somewhat related to
libre java implementations. IcedTea is intended to for hackers to just
get work done.

If you make what you have available and we can import it in a new hg
tree or forest under http://icedtea.classpath.org/hg/ which everybody
can then clone from. These repositories have offline backups made every
hour.

hg commit/push accounts work through ssh so you would need to provide an
ssh public key. Anybody with ssh push access can create personal
repositories (which should again only contain Free Software) under
http://icedtea.classpath.org/hg/people/ for "scratch" or test
repositories. These repositories aren't backed up though.

Everybody can use the bug database at
http://icedtea.classpath.org/bugzilla (we would add a new component for
mips) just by registering with some email address.

A wiki is available under http://icedtea.classpath.org/wiki which
currently doesn't have a public account registration because of spammers
abusing it (sorry about that). But just ask and anybody normally
communicating on the mailinglists can get an account using their normal
email address to edit any pages.

Cheers,

Mark