Whatever you want to do is good, but I'd like to see the first bit be an analysis of the various forks that have happened in terms of 1.5 versions of collections. There's stuff out there that wanted to get involved, now that we're thinking of moving they might be interested and have valuable code and/or ideas.
I'm not convinced on splitting up collections yet; simply having a big jar isn't enough of a reason for me. Hen On 10/20/06, Kris Nuttycombe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Speaking of porting to collections to generics, I have a bit of time available to contribute to this effort. Could we at least create a generics branch in SVN to get the ball rolling? This topic has been bounced around for a long time, but the process needs to start at some point. I realize that collections needs to be refactored into some smaller projects, but I'm not convinced that the two tasks need to necessarily be undertaken simultaneously. It may in fact be simpler to generify the code in its current architecture since this will involve less disruption to the unit tests. Kris Stephen Colebourne wrote: > Hi, > It would be useful to attach anything to a JIRA call, as that is an easier worklog than email. > > The biggest issue that I can see with this is that [collections] as a project is currently at the 'full' point, and needs refactoring into smaller units. This should probably be done as part of moving collections to JDK1.5. > > Unfortunately, [collections] has little development time available, so just porting to generics is a big enough concept, even before considering a new collection like Trie. > > There may be another committer willing to volunteer time to this of course... > > Stephen > > > ----- Original Message ---- > From: Sam Berlin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: Jakarta Commons Developers List <commons-dev@jakarta.apache.org> > Cc: Roger Kapsi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Wednesday, 20 September, 2006 12:42:12 AM > Subject: Contributing to Collections > > Hi Folks, > > I sent an email last week about contributing a Patricia tree to the Commons > Collections project, but haven't heard back. The project is fully > voluntary, so I understand that responses may take a long time. I'd like to > make sure that I sent the offer to the correct place, though. Is there some > other venue I should be looking at for contributing code? Should I be doing > this through JIRA? > > To recap last week's email, Roger Kapsi & I have developed a Patricia tree > that fits the Map & SortedMap interfaces (and can easily fit the upcoming > Java 1.6 NavigableMap), and we'd like to offer it for inclusion in > commons-collection. It's currently written for Java 1.5's generics and > licensed under the GPL, but we can easily remove the generics if required > and should likely be able to change the license if necessary. > > Thanks very much, > Sam > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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