Re: [Freecol-developers] Looking to join/help out

2013-01-10 Thread Jonathan Simona
Thank you very much for the reply! Of course like all bug fixers, they must be able to run and build the game and reproduce the bugs. I've currently downloaded FreeCol from the SVN database via Eclipse's Subclipse extension and checked out from the "trunk" folder. Afterwards I checked it out as a

Re: [Freecol-developers] Looking to join/help out

2013-01-10 Thread Michael T. Pope
On Thu, 10 Jan 2013 12:42:35 PM Jonathan Simona wrote: > Hello people of FreeCol, my name is Jonathan Simona and I was wondering if > it is possible for me to contribute to this project. I normally use the following standard response: Welcome. Getting started as a FreeCol contributor is summar

[Freecol-developers] Looking to join/help out

2013-01-10 Thread Jonathan Simona
Hello people of FreeCol, my name is Jonathan Simona and I was wondering if it is possible for me to contribute to this project. This is for my school's Software Engineering class in which we are required to submit two "non trivial" bugs fixes/ features over the next two months to an open source pro

Re: [Freecol-developers] housekeeping

2013-01-10 Thread Michael T. Pope
On Wed, 9 Jan 2013 12:58:23 PM Michael T. Pope wrote: > Unless there are objections I plan to click the sourceforge `upgrade > project' link fairly soon, albeit not earlier than 20130110 UTC. > AFAICT the world is unlikely to end as a result, although commits made > during

Re: [Freecol-developers] housekeeping

2013-01-10 Thread Uwe
Hi Michael, 2013/1/10 Michael T. Pope > One further insight: I only encountered minor > performance issues with OpenJDK when I first switched to it about three of > so > years ago. IMHO such concerns are largely outdated and/or overstated, and > outweighed by a preference to avoid Oracle. > >