Yeah, there is something so rewarding about the 'thank you' one gets 99% of the time. Human feedback it is. Thanks.
regards, Adam ----- Original Message ----- From: "Sam Ruby" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Gump code and data" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, July 21, 2004 6:20 PM Subject: Re: JDK 1.5 > Adam R. B. Jack wrote: > > > How do we get the word out about the JDK 1.5 Gump runs? > > > > http://brutus.apache.org/gump/jdk15/ > > > > Teams may not be shooting for JDK1.5 compliance right now, but if Gump could > > do the leg work for them, maybe they'd do minor tweaks if needed. I could > > see this help user, but I feel it has to start sooner, not later (so no > > releases go out w/ minor JDK1.5 nits if could be avoided). > > > > Ought we consider notifications? Other ideas? > > The way I did this in prior releases was to build it without > notification, and then personally approach the projects which had > failures. I kept a catalog of problems encountered which I dutifully > submitted to Sun (who had made public claims about being 100% backwards > compatible - bunk!). These problems were, of course, summarily ignored. > > My experience was that projects by and large were extremely appreciative > of being given specific and human feedback, and I found the process to > be very rewarding. > > Still, in the case of 1.4, there was a gap of six months to a year > before everyone felt confortable with making it "official". > > - Sam Ruby > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > 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]
