Hi, On 09/03/2014 05:35 PM, Guillermo Rodriguez Garcia wrote: > Hi Andrew, > > 2014-09-03 18:30 GMT+02:00 Andrew Haley <aph@xxxxxxxxxx>: >> On 09/03/2014 05:12 PM, Guillermo Rodriguez Garcia wrote: >>> 1. Development of GNU Classpath seems to be stalled now (quoting from >>> an earlier post from Andrew Haley: "I have to tell you that Classpath >>> is not being actively developed, so your problem is unlikely to be >>> fixed.") >>> >>> 2. This is due to the lack of manpower, which in turn is probably due >>> to the lack of interested developers, but also to the fact that most >>> of the development effort of the current team is going to OpenJDK >>> instead. >>> >>> 3. Given the above, perhaps the current maintainers should consider >>> switching priorities and start actively looking for a "competent >>> successor" (as in lesson #5 of ESR's "The Cathedral and the Bazaar"). >> >> Your opinion has been noted. Now, what do *you* intend to do to help? > > I am willing to help where possible. Sending patches or bugfixes is OK > (and I will do so if I come across any problems), but in my opinion > this does not address the real problem. For example *I* cannot update > the GNU Classpath page to list 0.99, and not 0.98, as the current > version. Almost all of GNU Classpath is under source control, and patches are welcome. A new version of the web page is welcome. Having said that, I don't have access to the web page, but I think we can get it. > What would you like me to do? How can I help ? I think I'd like people to fix problems when they find them. "Update Classpath to Java 1.6." isn't a reasonable interim goal. Andrew.
