I think we're moving along rather quickly. I expect Japhar to have
Classpath integration in the next few weeks. At that point, we'll gain
Chris Toshok as a regular user and bug-finder, which will help a lot. I
think the point at which we will *really* begin to move is when we have
fulfilled two requirements: (1) a buildable, usable release, and (2) lots of
people that know that that is the case :)
To that end, here are the minimum requirements I can think of for very
first public alpha release:
1. Everything builds out of the box. Warnings allowed, errors not.
2. Self-contained: does not require Sun's JDK to fill in missing
classes.
3. Passes all the tests Japhar normally passes.
4. A tested cleanroom release requiring only ./configure; make; make
install that does all of the above.
5. All files have the proper copyrights on them (most don't right now,
including mine)
At that point, we can release an alpha on the website and let people
know about it. I call it alpha because it is incomplete; that is, it does
not have all of the classes we set out for a first final release. Beta
would probably work OK as a moniker.
Let me know if there are any other hurdles you can think of.
--John Keiser
