Hello, I'm new to the list so I'm writing this little introduction about myself. I'm a DD since quite a while but was never involved in any java packaging effort, and actually, my DD skills are a bit rotten by a period of reduced activity. So I won't get offensed if you treat me like a beginner, that's not that far from what I am :-/
I am also the upstream of the Java Learning Machine, which is a neat Learning Management System to teach programming to absolute beginners. The project homepage is here: http://www.loria.fr/~quinson/Teaching/JLM/ I decided to package this into debian because the project is quite mature (we're using it in real teaching settings since several years now) and I hope that it would help others, too. There is several missing dependencies that I plan to package too: * irclib, a Java IRC implementation (to allow the students to chat and discuss their difficulties together) ITP filled #622326 * jsyntaxpane, an easy to use JEditorKit http://code.google.com/p/jsyntaxpane ITP to be filled today. * twitter4j -- A Java library for the Twitter API, ITP already existing #613297 (to post students successes on twitter) nthykier added me to the alioth project, and I'll now integrate my work into the git section. I only need to remember how git-buildpackage works... Another problem is that as often with Java packages, some of the projects listed above do not have proper upstream source packages. For irclib, I had to jh_repack the jar which contained both the classes and the source, which is fine I think. For jsyntaxpane, there is absolutely no source package to download so I had to build a tgz from a svn checkout. I'm less confident in this. Does anyone have an advice on this? Ok, that's all I have in my head right now, but I fear I'll ask more questions on this list or on #d-java (where I'm emptty) in the near future... Thanks for the fish, Mt. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
