Re: Quality control and FOSS rant

[Audrius Meskauskas <audriusa@xxxxxxxxxx>]

I personally see no reason, why Classpath could not have some simple 
code reviewing system.  We may just set up rule that the new patch must 
come with fixes of all regressions it make. If the rule would be 
ignored, the older developers may set up the local Mauve testing 
systems, divide the packages and briefly check if the new coming patches 
do not break the tests.

People who want to try alternative approaches to CORBA or DTD - HTML 
parser implementations are unlikely to contribute to the project which 
only accepts single line bug fixes. If Sun wants to have OpenJDK very 
stable and production ready, some "experimental" fork likely should be 
set up anyway (its like RHEL and Fedora).

Also, GNU Classpath is already ported into many systems -  with the new 
features ready to come to these systems just after recompiling an 
ordinary Classpath release. Just because this simple reason, it may make 
sense to continue.

Audrius.