I have been using Debian for some time now and I have been very pleased to be a part of such a noteworthy community. I've been looking to help maintain a package, but I've been carefull not to voluteer to do so untill I found a package that I really liked and needed to use, that was not already included in the distribution.
I've found that one of the main things that makes Debian such a good distro is that the people that actually manage the packages have so much to gain and lose from doing it right/wrong ... and you get quality stuff ...what a great system... The one package that I think I would like to see in Debian that is not already included is jEdit. jEdit is an extremely powerfull editor / env for programers and serves MANY usefull functions due to its extensible architecture. so I guess my questions are.... 1. I've checked many mailing lists (jedit lists too) and there doesn't seem to be any official or unofficial jedit packages that exist or are in the works already... am I wrong? 2. I realize that jEdit is a program that is designed to run on a JVM that is not considered FREE by normal Debian standards... but would Debian provide the infastructure neccessary to maintain and distribute the package seing as how jEdit relies on non-free, non-packaged software? 3. What is the status of officially including a Java 2 sdk in the distribution? I was just interested in getting some feedback ... from people who have be there and done that... ...
