Explaining what we do

[Mark Wielaard <mark at wildebeest dot org>]

Hi Fernando (and others of course),

On Mon, 2005-10-24 at 09:31 -0200, fernando@lozano.eti.br wrote: 
> It would be good to have a report on the general state of Kaffe,
> JamVM, SableVm, etc.

On Mon, 2005-11-07 at 14:47 -0200, Fernando Lozano wrote:
> On a side note, it would be nice to have people on the Linux.Java.Net 
> comunity. I know there a lot of nice (and much better) sites about F/OSS 
> Java, but Java.Net has a high visibility among people who don't know (or 
> have the wrong ideas) about the free software movement and so it could 
> help a lot changing this perception.

It took some time, but we finally put together an article on how we
Build, Test and Deliver in the Free Software community. Things seem to
"just work" for some larger applications on the newest GNU/Linux
distributions. And it is good to explain how we got there, how we do it
and what the road map is. After talking to a lot of people (and too much
inactivity on my part) I finally pushed out a first release of this
"road map": http://developer.classpath.org/support/

This is clearly a first release, so please send corrections, additions,
better pictures, translations, etc. And I had really wanted to compress
it to just 2 pages so we could use it as a flyer. It is 3 pages now. But
I think it is a good start for people completely unaware of out current
efforts and where we are going with all this. Feedback really
appreciated.

I asked the Sun "ombudsman", Simon Phipps, a few weeks back about
lifting the restrictions around java.net and how having to accept a
license with 15 (!) clauses just to have a little discussion isn't
encouraging participation. And he said they were looking into fixing
that. So maybe we can participate in the future there. But if you could
get this road map published on linux.java.net already to raise awareness
that would be appreciated.

Cheers,

Mark