From owner-freebsd-java Sat Feb 8 14: 9:24 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-java@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1686F37B401 for ; Sat, 8 Feb 2003 14:09:23 -0800 (PST) Received: from gnuppy.monkey.org (wsip68-15-8-100.sd.sd.cox.net [68.15.8.100]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 45A9143F3F for ; Sat, 8 Feb 2003 14:09:17 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from billh@gnuppy.monkey.org) Received: from billh by gnuppy.monkey.org with local (Exim 3.36 #1 (Debian)) id 18hd5i-0000QN-00; Sat, 08 Feb 2003 14:04:54 -0800 Date: Sat, 8 Feb 2003 14:04:53 -0800 To: shudo@computer.org Cc: jdp@polstra.com, freebsd-java@FreeBSD.ORG, john@utzweb.net, "brent@rcfile.org.freebsd-chat"@FreeBSD.ORG, rwatson@freesbsd.org, calvin.austin@sun.com, brian@collab.net, bod@freebsdfoundation.org, "Bill Huey (Hui)" Subject: Re: patchset 2 report (billh's resignation) Message-ID: <20030208220453.GA1434@gnuppy.monkey.org> References: <863cn2nf6g.wl@utweb.net> <20030208.210904.304092174.shudo@localhost> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20030208.210904.304092174.shudo@localhost> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.3i From: Bill Huey (Hui) 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 Sat, Feb 08, 2003 at 09:09:04PM +0900, shudo@computer.org wrote: > Unfortunately, you could not have a chance to see my warning to the > FreeBSD-Java list soon after the announce: > > http://docs.freebsd.org/cgi/getmsg.cgi?fetch=50852+0+archive/2001/freebsd-java/20011230.freebsd-java > > The following is an extract from the attached mail: The tests were passed in the green threading system with the help of another vendor recently from private mailings. > The original purpose of the funding, which is boosting the TCK work, > is inconsistent with the following announce by Greg: > > | From: Greg Lewis > | To: freebsd-java@FreeBSD.ORG > | Date: Wed, 5 Feb 2003 03:44:45 +1030 > | > | Again, I would like to thank Alexey Zelkin who has single handedly been > | working on the 1.4 port. I'd also like to thank the FreeBSD Foundation > | who have provided the funding to allow Alexey to continue his work. > > This announce says that FBSD Foundation has provided the fund for the > porting work of JDK 1.4.1, which does not boost the TCK work at all. They need oversight, that's the bottom line and can't be just randomly meddling into various groups. > Greg has been working hard on the TCK work throughout the year 2002. > He has been improved Classic VM of JDK 1.3.1 to get it passing the > TCK. Alexey's current work is porting of HotSpot VM of JDK 1.4.X. > They are completely different activities. > > Or, was the target of the TCK work changed into JDK 1.4.X? > > As many of you know, 1.4.X for FreeBSD has just started working and > still immature and it will need much time to pass the TCK. See the > case of 1.3.1. FreeBSD's 1.4.X will take more time then 1.3.1. > Anyway, it's wasteful to abandon the work on 1.3.1. > > > Both > > Greg and Nate agreed that Alexey would be a good person for the job. > > I guess you mean the TCK work by `the job'. Yep, none of this was clarified, which is has caused a lot of confusion and general wierdness. bill To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-java" in the body of the message