Tim Ellison wrote:
Probably best to put the 'concerted work in progress' description on the
wiki, so anyone can join in; the website status page was intended to be
more of a current state of the code overview. We should also start to
set ourselves some goals, in terms of applications to run, etc.
If you want to make a start on the wiki page that would be good, or if
anyone else has an idea for tracking intent...
It's also worth mentioning that I don't believe we should be exclusive
about areas of work within, and contribution to, Harmony. While I
understand that the goal is to minimize redundant work, we may find
ourselves in the situation of having more than one implementation of the
same APIs (we already saw this happen with 'security' and 'security2'
contributions). This is no bad thing as it allows us to evaluate the
best technical option (quickly) and proceed with the combined group of
experts collaborating on a single code base. I hope we can continue to
do so 'harmoniously'.
I also strongly advise *not* to put something in a wiki that says "work
in progress" without working on it in a place where people can see progress.
The reason for this is because somebody that might have an itch to
scratch (say running their favorite applet/swing-app on harmony) needs
to be able to contribute while the process is running, not at the end of
it... or we end up losing potential contributors.
I don't want to rain on the parade, just suggesting that we should allow
people that want to play in our svn sandbox with even a minimal
contribution of code, instead of having them working on their stuff in
their own hard drives where nobody can see it, comment on it or
change/improve it.
Regards,
Tim
karan malhi wrote:
Hi,
I am writing the interfaces for the javax.accessibility package. Some of
the interfaces are dependent on classes from the awt package. Are we
expecting any donations for awt, swing packages?
If donations are not expected then what approach should I take? Should I
start writing stuff for awt and swing (on which accessibility depends
on) so that accessibility classes compile during a build in harmony?
Please guide me here.
Secondly, once a volunteer starts working on a "Missing" module as
stated on
http://incubator.apache.org/harmony/subcomponents/classlibrary/status.html
, should the status be changed to something else like "Work in progress"
or something?
--
Stefano.
