From owner-freebsd-java Thu Jun 27 15:37:33 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-java@freebsd.org Received: from gnuppy.monkey.org (wsip68-15-8-100.sd.sd.cox.net [68.15.8.100]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 03EF637B400 for ; Thu, 27 Jun 2002 15:37:31 -0700 (PDT) Received: from billh by gnuppy.monkey.org with local (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 17Nht5-0000Mx-00; Thu, 27 Jun 2002 15:37:15 -0700 Date: Thu, 27 Jun 2002 15:37:10 -0700 To: "David P. Caldwell" Cc: Greg Lewis , freebsd-java@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: A Call to Action for freebsd-java... Message-ID: <20020627223710.GA1416@gnuppy.monkey.org> References: <20020628024759.A33080@misty.eyesbeyond.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.4i From: Bill Huey Sender: owner-freebsd-java@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Thu, Jun 27, 2002 at 01:29:44PM -0400, David P. Caldwell wrote: > I "know" C/C++, but I don't know how to use debuggers, don't have any > experience making system calls, etc. This kind of hard-core practical > knowledge I imagine is important to what you are working on. (Stuff like > "run it under gdb and tell me what happens" seems to come up, but I have > only the vaguest idea what that means and wouldn't know how to interpret the > output.) It's a persistence kind of thing. You can only develope it by intense work like any other displine. > Presumably there are some people with my skill set laying around. What > would be the best way for *us* to help out (if there are any right now)? Raise the skill set to the level needed to do this work. Most of it is a mental problem, but once you get past that it's not as hard as one might think. bill To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-java" in the body of the message