I'm game. Commons, please be so kind as to give me a pail and shovel in your sandbox, and I'll set to work.
On Mon, Nov 30, 2009 at 11:29 PM, James Carman <ja...@carmanconsulting.com> wrote: > Good idea, Henri. I'm +1 to that. > > On Mon, Nov 30, 2009 at 11:24 PM, Henri Yandell <flame...@gmail.com> wrote: >> Or you could start up a sandbox project. We've had good success with >> ASF committers creating a sandbox branch of a released component, and >> after diving in for a while it's then merged in to trunk where they >> then become one of the most active coders of that component. >> >> So +1 to a sandbox branch to primitives if you have ideas you'd like >> to play with. ASF committers get karma to the sandbox on request, so >> just need you to want to do that and we can add karma. >> >> Hen >> >> On Mon, Nov 30, 2009 at 5:01 PM, Benson Margulies <bimargul...@gmail.com> >> wrote: >>> Stephen, >>> >>> It's interesting to me that the world in general knows about Trove, >>> but not so much this. >>> >>> The fact that the front page is labelled with a snapshot version might >>> have something to do with it, but I am kind of mystified. One thing >>> that I'd like to add that Trove has is a full generic object hash map >>> that is an open hash to avoid the space bloat of the stock Java >>> HashMap. >>> >>> I am willing to make time to work on this. Since I'm not a committer >>> at commons, I'm thinking that my proposed lab is a reasonable place to >>> put in some effort and then bring it back into commons. Or maybe I >>> should just start teeing up patches at commons? I find that >>> reorganizing changes that might be called for to do generics and such >>> are really clumsy in patches, so svn cp-ing to a lab might still make >>> sense. >>> >>> I'm copy the labs list to test if I'm making a particle of sense. >>> >>> --benson >>> >>> >>> On Mon, Nov 30, 2009 at 5:34 PM, Stephen Colebourne >>> <scolebou...@btopenworld.com> wrote: >>>> Benson Margulies wrote: >>>>> >>>>> I proposed a lab over at labs in which to start construction of >>>>> something much like what commons-primitives describes itself as >>>>> setting out to do. The web page for primitives suggests a rather >>>>> dormant state. Is there anybody in there actively working on >>>>> primitives? >>>> >>>> I think [primitives] is stable and complete, thus appears rather quiet. >>>> >>>> I'd also point out Joda-Primitives - >>>> http://joda-primitives.sourceforge.net/ >>>> >>>> Its a fork of the concept of [primitives] but with an API design I felt >>>> more >>>> comfortable with. However, I don't have time to work on it (generify, >>>> release). I'll grant access to anyone that wants to help on it. >>>> >>>> Stephen >>>> >>>> >>>> --------------------------------------------------------------------- >>>> To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@commons.apache.org >>>> For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@commons.apache.org >>>> >>>> >>> >>> --------------------------------------------------------------------- >>> To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@commons.apache.org >>> For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@commons.apache.org >>> >>> >> >> --------------------------------------------------------------------- >> To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@commons.apache.org >> For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@commons.apache.org >> >> > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@commons.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@commons.apache.org > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@commons.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@commons.apache.org
