From owner-freebsd-java Mon Apr 24 7:23: 6 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-java@freebsd.org Received: from green.wl.vg (green.wl.vg [204.200.26.138]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5586837BB08 for ; Mon, 24 Apr 2000 07:23:03 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from patrick@whetstonelogic.com) Received: from whetstonelogic.com (209-9-69-198.sdsl.cais.net [209.9.69.198]) by green.wl.vg (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id HAA11862; Mon, 24 Apr 2000 07:21:41 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from patrick@whetstonelogic.com) Message-ID: <39049158.11D6C30@whetstonelogic.com> Date: Mon, 24 Apr 2000 14:24:24 -0400 From: Patrick Gardella Organization: Whetstone Logic, Inc. X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en] (X11; I; SunOS 5.8 i86pc) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: John Daniels , freebsd-java@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Sun's RFE - 1st place References: <20000423215934.60865.qmail@hotmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-java@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org John Daniels wrote: > > 1)How do I vote? > > 2) Let's get out the vote! Messages and reminders should be sent to other > mailing lists and BSD websites. Can someone (I'm just a newbie) send a > message to the other mailing lists with simple, easy instructions (with a > URL) so we can get the most votes possible? Are multiple votes OK? One vote > per person? per url? per login to sun's developer site? Take a look at the http://www.freebsd.org/java/ pages. Especially, the news section. :) > If we "win" just what does that mean? How long (estimate?) before Sun would > start on/finish a port? Absolutely nothing. :) It's a request process, (Request for Enhancement), so they can ignore it, if they wish. > Does it help our chances that the Java porting team has made significant > progress on a native port? Shouldn't this be made known to Sun? (Oh, and > please don't forget to THANK the Java porting team for their work) That does help, since they might just pick up our port, and make enhancements to it. But the more "votes" or other requests helps our cause greatly. Patrick Gardella To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-java" in the body of the message