I know I was away from the Apache Harmony project quite some time, the reasons where mostly related to my work and University studies but there where private reasons too. I hope my summaries of the dev mailing list are still welcome in the project. At least I'm glad to see I'm still on the committers-list ;)
In the first paragraph of this summary I want to cover the most important events in January and the first two weeks of Febuary. I won't summarize the discussions in this period because (unfortunately) I missed many of them - I'll only mention the major events like code donations or votes. After that the summary for this week (Sun, 12 Feb 2006 - Sat, 18 Feb 2006) follows. On Fri, 30 Dec 2005 Geir Magnusson Jr. posted the Result to the "[VOTE] Accept JIRA contribution HARMONY-16 (Intel's contrib of security code for classlib)" which was accepted with 8x +1 (5 binding) and 1x 0. JCHEVM has been moved out of the sandbox in January 2006. On Mon, 23 Jan 2006 Andrey Chernyshev announced the "Contribution of beans, math and regex libraries" on behalf of intel. The vote which followed was accepted with 5 binding +1 votes. Ok, now for this week's summary: almost 430 emails marked. That's pretty much, so I'll make the summaries of the threads quite short. And just for the stats: I started following this project in July 2005, and in the time from July 2005 to December 2005 there where 1212 emails on harmony-dev. From January 1st until Febuary 17th there where 1375 emails. Pretty impressive how this project develops, IMHO. In the thread "[jchevm] porting harmony classlib to JCHEVM" Weldon Washburn, Archie Cobbs, Geir Magnusson Jr. and Tim Ellison discussed about how the harmony Classlib could be "glued" to GNU Classpath compatible VM's. The idea is to provide a compatibility layer between the two VM/classlibrary interfaces. Weldon is working on a Thread kernel class to prove the concept. [1][http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/incubator-harmony-dev/200602.mbox/[EMAIL PROTECTED] The discussions in "Using Cairo for Harmony graphic stuff?" was mostly about where cairo could be used for Harmony, but there was also some more general discussion about how to do all the graphics stuff (AWT, the Java2D part of AWT, Swint, ...). Anthony Green suggested to use jogl (JSR231) instead of cairo. [2][http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/incubator-harmony-dev/200602.mbox/[EMAIL PROTECTED] Tim Ellison, Mikhail Loenko, Geir Magnusson Jr. and others discussed about the proposed package naming convention for the org.apache.harmony.* packages Tim posted on the website in the thread "Location for API extensions" [3]. [3][http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/incubator-harmony-dev/200602.mbox/[EMAIL PROTECTED] Geir Magnusson Jr. started the thread "[classlib] build / test system" where he mentioned some issues with using the Eclipse compiler in an integrated build/test system (especially for people who don't have eclipse installed). It was suggested to either put the nessessary jars into the SVN repository or get them from the Maven repository at ibilio.org [4]. The thread "[tools] javac.exe" is somewhat related here [5] - Geir asked if javac.exe should just start the VM and then the eclipse compiler. [4][http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/incubator-harmony-dev/200602.mbox/[EMAIL PROTECTED] [5][http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/incubator-harmony-dev/200602.mbox/[EMAIL PROTECTED] In "[classlib] proposal to revisit componentization for security" Tim Ellison and Mikhail Loenko discussed about how to group security packages into modules [6]. Tim Ellison wrote the email "[classlib] using cpp" where he suggests not to use C++ for the jaasnix natives since the changes are minimal [7]. There was some discussion if we should or should not use C++ for implementing the classlib natives. [6][http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/incubator-harmony-dev/200602.mbox/[EMAIL PROTECTED] [7][http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/incubator-harmony-dev/200602.mbox/[EMAIL PROTECTED] There was some more discussion about "compiling JCHEVM with GCC/Cygwin" [8]. Weldon Washburn and others discussed about how to implement String.intern(...) in the thread "[jchevm] native method API for _jc_new_intern_string -- do you plan to add to _jc_ilib_entry table?" [9]. In the thread "build fails - what next?" build problems with the classlib where discussed [10]. In the thread "[classlib] creating a new snapshot, and planned breakage heads-up" Tim Ellison and others discussed about when and how to make a new binary snapshot of the classlib [11]. Some more discussion about build problems here: "error when using sun compiler" [12]. [8][http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/incubator-harmony-dev/200602.mbox/[EMAIL PROTECTED] [9][http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/incubator-harmony-dev/200602.mbox/[EMAIL PROTECTED] [10][http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/incubator-harmony-dev/200602.mbox/[EMAIL PROTECTED] [11][http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/incubator-harmony-dev/200602.mbox/[EMAIL PROTECTED] [12][http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/incubator-harmony-dev/200602.mbox/[EMAIL PROTECTED] In the thread "newbie to project-where to start from" there were several questions+answers about where to start when joining the Harmony project. There was also some more discussion about test case naming and other things (compatibility issues, licensing, ...) [13]. Andrey Chernyshev re-opened the thread "repo layout again" (renamed to "Platform dependent code placement" [14]. [13][http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/incubator-harmony-dev/200602.mbox/[EMAIL PROTECTED] [14][http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/incubator-harmony-dev/200602.mbox/[EMAIL PROTECTED] In the thread "[classlib] do we need a global exclude list?" the organisation of test case exclude lists was discussed [15]. There was some Java Performance discussions in "I welcome J2SE 6's faster- splash...." [16]. Geir has moved the security2 module to security and archived the old security module: "[classlib] security moved". Some discussion about snapshots followed [17]. Tim Ellison announced a new snapshot: "[classlib] Snapshot build 378478 available" [18]. [15][http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/incubator-harmony-dev/200602.mbox/[EMAIL PROTECTED] [16][http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/incubator-harmony-dev/200602.mbox/[EMAIL PROTECTED] [17][http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/incubator-harmony-dev/200602.mbox/[EMAIL PROTECTED] [18][http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/incubator-harmony-dev/200602.mbox/[EMAIL PROTECTED] In "CLA issues Was: java.sql.*" Tor-Einar Jarnbjo, Geir Magnusson Jr. and Leo Simons discussed some details about German laws and the Apache Licenses [19]. There was some more legal discussion (mostly about NDAs) in "NDA issues and acceptable use of sun source" [20]. [19][http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/incubator-harmony-dev/200602.mbox/[EMAIL PROTECTED] [20][http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/incubator-harmony-dev/200602.mbox/[EMAIL PROTECTED] Regards, David. -- Read the archive of this series at http://deltalabs.at/ -- RSS feed: http://deltalabs.at/?q=taxonomy/term/8/0/feed -- Also aggregated at: http://planet.classpath.org/ -- David Tanzer, Haghofstr. 29, A-3352 St. Peter/Au, Austria/Europe http://deltalabs.at -- http://dev.guglhupf.net -- http://guglhupf.net My PGP Public Key: http://guglhupf.net/david/david.asc -- "A fractal is by definition a set for which the Hausdorff Besicovitch dimension strictly exceeds the topological dimension." -- Mandelbrot, "The Fractal Geometry of Nature"
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