Re: [discussion] Committer Addition Process

2005-09-20 Thread Brett Porter
On 9/21/05, Geir Magnusson Jr. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > 4) A committer will lose commit status after 4 months of inactivity. > In order to regain commit status, that person must begin > participating by offering a patch, new code, etc :) > This seems too much in the long run, but I do thin

Re: Developing Harmony

2005-05-17 Thread Brett Porter
> > LLVM looks cool, but comes with a wholebunchastuff under different > licenses embedded in it. A casual inspection suggests we can probably > work around them, but a closer inspection would be required. They all looked to be the same with additional copyrights, ie BSD-ish, with the exception o

Re: Stop worrying about licenses!

2005-05-17 Thread Brett Porter
Leo Simons wrote: >Roughly 95% of the people on this list should from this point forward stop >worrying about licensing issues for, oh, I dunno, the next 6 months. +1 :) > * the answer to most of your legal questions will be provided within a > reasonable timeframe without you needing to actuall

Re: impatient ;)

2005-05-15 Thread Brett Porter
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Patrice Le Vexier wrote: >Dear all, > >correct me if i'm wrong, but, to make a J2SE platform, we need: > >- a compiler (javac) >- a JVM (maybe a simple interpreter at first time, then a jit/wat/xxx of the >death) >- class library (classpath as good be

Re: Apache Harmony / GNU Classpath

2005-05-12 Thread Brett Porter
(harmony specific - back to this list only) Davanum Srinivas wrote: >Ben, > >Once we get past that problem, we have to get an ok for provining a >single bundle. I think 2 downloads to get a working JVM (say on M$ >platform) is to say it mildly...crazy. > > While it is great to see everyone cont

Re: Status updates and distribution integration

2005-05-11 Thread Brett Porter
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Sorry to get a little off topic, but I noticed the magic M word :) Karl Trygve Kalleberg wrote: > >Maven is a very problematic us Gentoo packagers. It makes our lives >difficult. In fact, in Gentoo, we have adopted the stance of just >ripping out the