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Date: Tue, 07 Mar 2006 13:49:47 +0000
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Subject: Component status pages (was:Re: any donations expected for awt and
 swing?)
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Tim Ellison wrote:
> Geir Magnusson Jr wrote:
>   
>> Tim Ellison wrote:
>>     
>>> Probably best to put the 'concerted work in progress' description on the
>>> wiki, so anyone can join in; the website status page was intended to be
>>> more of a current state of the code overview.  We should also start to
>>> set ourselves some goals, in terms of applications to run, etc.
>>>       
>> Why not have "started" on the webpage, and then a like to the wiki page
>> if there is one?
>>
>> Or just encourage people to ask here on the dev list...
>>     
>
> Yes, that would be fine.  If somebody wants to hack the wiki for module
> status pages, I'll volunteer to point to the website to them.
>   
To start with (because it is easier for people to update) I've 
replicated Tim's table on the Wiki 
(here:http://wiki.apache.org/harmony/component_development_status). I've 
linked one component (j.l.mangement) to a seperate page and marked it as 
"started". How about other people marking up the areas that they are 
working in?
> Regards,
> Tim
>
>   
>>> If you want to make a start on the wiki page that would be good, or if
>>> anyone else has an idea for tracking intent...
>>>
>>> It's also worth mentioning that I don't believe we should be exclusive
>>> about areas of work within, and contribution to, Harmony. 
>>>       
>> Absolutely.
>>
>>     
>>> While I
>>> understand that the goal is to minimize redundant work, we may find
>>> ourselves in the situation of having more than one implementation of the
>>> same APIs (we already saw this happen with 'security' and 'security2'
>>> contributions).  This is no bad thing as it allows us to evaluate the
>>> best technical option (quickly) and proceed with the combined group of
>>> experts collaborating on a single code base.  I hope we can continue to
>>> do so 'harmoniously'.
>>>       
>> Choice and competition is good.  This isn't "live or die" competition,
>> but "we can choose best of breed" competition, and we all benefit. There
>> are no losers.
>>
>> geir
>>
>>     
>>> Regards,
>>> Tim
>>>
>>> karan malhi wrote:
>>>       
>>>> Hi,
>>>>
>>>> I am writing the interfaces for the javax.accessibility package. Some of
>>>> the interfaces are dependent on classes from the awt package. Are we
>>>> expecting any donations for awt, swing packages?
>>>> If donations are not expected then what approach should I take? Should I
>>>> start writing stuff for  awt and swing (on which accessibility depends
>>>> on) so that accessibility classes compile during a build in harmony?
>>>> Please guide me here.
>>>>
>>>> Secondly, once a volunteer starts working on a "Missing" module as
>>>> stated on
>>>> http://incubator.apache.org/harmony/subcomponents/classlibrary/status.html
>>>>
>>>> , should the status be changed to something else like "Work in progress"
>>>> or something?
>>>>
>>>>         
>
>