Return-Path: Delivered-To: apmail-gump-general-archive@www.apache.org Received: (qmail 10392 invoked from network); 22 Jul 2004 02:56:43 -0000 Received: from hermes.apache.org (HELO mail.apache.org) (209.237.227.199) by minotaur-2.apache.org with SMTP; 22 Jul 2004 02:56:43 -0000 Received: (qmail 7662 invoked by uid 500); 22 Jul 2004 02:56:43 -0000 Delivered-To: apmail-gump-general-archive@gump.apache.org Received: (qmail 7552 invoked by uid 500); 22 Jul 2004 02:56:42 -0000 Mailing-List: contact general-help@gump.apache.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Help: List-Post: List-Id: "Gump code and data" Reply-To: "Gump code and data" Delivered-To: mailing list general@gump.apache.org Received: (qmail 7537 invoked by uid 99); 22 Jul 2004 02:56:42 -0000 X-ASF-Spam-Status: No, hits=0.0 required=10.0 tests= X-Spam-Check-By: apache.org Received: from [130.214.10.19] (HELO mx1.try.sybase.com) (130.214.10.19) by apache.org (qpsmtpd/0.27.1) with ESMTP; Wed, 21 Jul 2004 19:56:40 -0700 Received: from mail.try.sybase.com (mail.try.sybase.com [130.214.10.18]) by mx1.try.sybase.com (8.12.11/8.12.11) with ESMTP id i6M2tHCg024824 for ; Wed, 21 Jul 2004 20:55:17 -0600 Received: from tsws1 ([10.22.120.33]) by mail.try.sybase.com (8.11.6/8.11.6) with SMTP id i6M2Wlt10979 for ; Wed, 21 Jul 2004 20:32:47 -0600 Message-ID: <00d101c46f97$82336e50$f1b5ea43@sybase.com> From: "Adam R. B. Jack" To: "Gump code and data" References: <0d3a01c46f77$d89e2250$66cbea43@sybase.com> <40FF0868.6010505@apache.org> Subject: Re: JDK 1.5 Date: Wed, 21 Jul 2004 20:49:19 -0600 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2800.1437 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1441 X-Virus-Checked: Checked X-Spam-Rating: minotaur-2.apache.org 1.6.2 0/1000/N Yeah, there is something so rewarding about the 'thank you' one gets 99% of the time. Human feedback it is. Thanks. regards, Adam ----- Original Message ----- From: "Sam Ruby" To: "Gump code and data" Sent: Wednesday, July 21, 2004 6:20 PM Subject: Re: JDK 1.5 > Adam R. B. Jack wrote: > > > How do we get the word out about the JDK 1.5 Gump runs? > > > > http://brutus.apache.org/gump/jdk15/ > > > > Teams may not be shooting for JDK1.5 compliance right now, but if Gump could > > do the leg work for them, maybe they'd do minor tweaks if needed. I could > > see this help user, but I feel it has to start sooner, not later (so no > > releases go out w/ minor JDK1.5 nits if could be avoided). > > > > Ought we consider notifications? Other ideas? > > The way I did this in prior releases was to build it without > notification, and then personally approach the projects which had > failures. I kept a catalog of problems encountered which I dutifully > submitted to Sun (who had made public claims about being 100% backwards > compatible - bunk!). These problems were, of course, summarily ignored. > > My experience was that projects by and large were extremely appreciative > of being given specific and human feedback, and I found the process to > be very rewarding. > > Still, in the case of 1.4, there was a gap of six months to a year > before everyone felt confortable with making it "official". > > - Sam Ruby > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: general-unsubscribe@gump.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: general-help@gump.apache.org > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: general-unsubscribe@gump.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: general-help@gump.apache.org