Date: Fri, 1 Sep 2000 12:26:43 +0930 From: Greg Lewis <glewis@ares.trc.adelaide.edu.au> To: "Koster, K.J." <K.J.Koster@kpn.com> Cc: "'FreeBSD Java mailing list'" <freebsd-java@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Unified BSD/JDK port mailing list? Message-ID: <20000901122643.A61498@ares.trc.adelaide.edu.au> In-Reply-To: <59063B5B4D98D311BC0D0001FA7E4522026D7807@l04.research.kpn.com>; from K.J.Koster@kpn.com on Wed, Aug 30, 2000 at 08:56:59PM %2B0100 References: <59063B5B4D98D311BC0D0001FA7E4522026D7807@l04.research.kpn.com>
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> I am trying to get some form of infrastructure done to support work on a > unified BSD JDK port. The idea is to supply those who are porting Sun's JDK > to either FreeBSD, NetBSD, OpenBSD and any other platform I've forgotten > with a single web site for status reports and such. Unless someone steps > forward on this ... *deafening silence* ... I will take that up and > multi-bsd my web pages. Good idea. I'm happy to do patchsets for the other BSDs through my site if people would like. That provides something which has already jumped through SCSL compliancy hoops. Alternatively I'm happy to give whatever parts of the site people want to them. > On top of that, I would really like to have a single mailing list for these > efforts, and I was wondering how much objection there is to using our Java > mailing list for that purpose. No objection. Politically it might make NetBSD and OpenBSD people feel uncomfortable though. > I think that we will benefit from the extra technical discussion that this > will attract. After all, we're all BSD's and what affects one is very likely > going to affect others. > > Additionally, doing this will create a sense of unity amongst the BSD Java > porters, which in turn will look good to the outside world (read: Sun) when > we start jumping the hoops for legality of a NetBSD and OpenBSD binary > distribution. Right. In terms of the mailing list (and I'm happy to be the one to do this if its thought to be a good idea) I'd like to suggest approaching Daemon News to see if they are interested in hosting special purpose unified BSD mailing lists such as this. Comments? -- Greg Lewis glewis@trc.adelaide.edu.au Computing Officer +61 8 8303 5083 Teletraffic Research Centre To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-java" in the body of the message
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