Taking up maintainership for SPARC - JEP-362
Peter Firmstone
peter.firmstone at zeus.net.au
Sun Sep 29 09:41:46 UTC 2019
On 28/09/2019 7:31 PM, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote:
> Hello!
>
> I have just been notified about JEP-362 [1] and would like to offer to be
> the official maintainer of the SPARC ports of OpenJDK.
>
> We're still using the Linux/SPARC port in Debian and therefore I would like
> to help keeping the port in as long as possible. There might also be users
> in the BSD world who are interested in the SPARC port.
>
> Thanks,
> Adrian
>
>> [1] https://openjdk.java.net/jeps/362
I'll help for a good cause, Fujitsu are still developing sparc, and it's
also still being used actively in research. I've been using Sparc since
the 32 bit Classic in the 90's, I still have a Blade 1000 and T5240 I
can develop on.
Regards,
Peter.
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