Perhaps an informal sub-committee? Just people interested in the topic, keep part of the conversation, and volunteer.
Sounds good. I'll volunteer for this.
What's next?
Ideas:
* Get a new sub-project into CVS (fedora-docs/toolchain? or somesuch name). Tammy, Mark, and I can commit into this for now, acting as conduits for changes from the rest of the project.
* We need ** Someone from kaffe
** Someone from gcj
** A willing FOP expert (either one who knows the code and use, or a
coder and an expert user)
** A DocBook XML expert (or three)
I'm willing to work on the xsl-fo customization, when we get there.
** Volunteers willing to test parallel toolchains
I'm also willing to test toolchains.
** A Debian liaison
If we can't get one of the Debian Java developers [1,2] (Arnaud Vandyck <avdyk@xxxxxxxxxx> comes to mind), in the meantime I'm happy to volunteer to serve as the Debian liaison. I'm a Debian XML developer/packager/policy editor and packaged some of the java tools. (Whoops, I just read Dalibor's message - I'll leave the debian contacts to him.)
[1] http://pkg-java.alioth.debian.org/ [2] http://alioth.debian.org/projects/pkg-java/
** ???
I'm willing to ask questions:) And supply asterisks.
BTW, I noticed that the debian fop package info used to imply that fop would run under kaffe. Dalibor: do you know if this is the case?
Just some ideas. I really do mean, "What's next?"
I think Dalibor laid out a pretty decent plan. Below I state his suggestions and add some of my own.
A. Document the issues the debian java group has had getting fop to compile &/or run under gcj, and work with them (& other relevant groups/developers) to resolve outstanding issues.
B. Determine if fop will run under kaffe, as an alternative
C. Ask Mark Wielaard who he recommends as a gcj contact.
> I'd also recommend getting in touch with the Java side of fedora, > to see what their FOP packaging plans and requirements are. I
> believe that Thomas Fitzsimmons and Fernando Nasser are working on > making JPackage work with gcj, they may be able to comment.
D. Either contact the JPackage folks via this list, or designate a liaison to initiate a dialog with them and report back to this list. Hopefully hook them up with the debian java group, so as to avoid duplicate efforts.
E. Form a subcommittee to make A - D above happen.
Cheers, Mark
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