Re: Classpath future?

[Etienne M. Gagnon]

Jeff Sturm wrote:

> Like anything else in free software, it'll likely be resolved by patches,
> not discussion... the debates are quickly lost and forgotten if not
> reinforced by contributed code.


But there's still the problem that patches aren't getting in the CVS 
tree because of the Copyright assignment issue (some people legitimately 
don't want to assign Copyright, others are caught up in a slow process).

I have many months ago sent a few patches on this list.  These were 
probably small enough not to require paperwork, but nothing happened. 
This is not how the Classpath should continue to operate, if it wants to 
lead the development of these class libraries.  A fork of the project 
could very easily similarly to XEmacs in respect of Emacs (e.g., import 
all of the official patches into the rogue repository).  But this would 
be most unfortunate.  The problem is that it might end up that way if 
contributions can't get more easily in Classpath!  We should really 
solve the contribution issue, and soon.

Etienne



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