Re: Explaining what we do

["fernando at lozano dot eti dot br" <fernando at lozano dot eti dot br>]

Hi Mark,

> 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/

Thanks for the info, I'll make it a feature on Linux.Java.net and it'll probably go from there to
the main page.


> 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.

Maybe the short 2-page flyer could be complemented by a more detailed one, using your original and
feedback from the comunity.

> 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. 

I send input from our discussion here about java.net licenses to the community managers but got no
feedback so far. I'll ping them again.


[]s, Fernando Lozano