new home for JDEE (was: Re: jde-import-kill-extra-imports not working)

Darn it, got nailed once again by the old "mailing list reply goes to
the person, not the list" blunder.  Here is the email I meant to send
to the list.

Carlos Konstanski

0;229;0cOn Wed, 31 Oct 2007, Carlos Konstanski wrote:

> Date: Wed, 31 Oct 2007 08:27:12 -0600
> From: Carlos Konstanski <[email protected]>
> To: Phillip Lord <[email protected]>
> Cc: Carlos Konstanski <[email protected]>
> Subject: Re: jde-import-kill-extra-imports not working
> 
> At Wed, 31 Oct 2007 11:58:25 +0000,
> Phillip Lord wrote:
>>
>> I would move to sourceforge or gna.org. This is straightforward enough. Then
>> pull the current cvs into a svn as quite a lot more people are using this
>> nowadays (it's not essential though).
>>
>> The jobs that need doing are:
>>
>> 1) checking patches for people without svn/cvs access.
>> 2) adding people to svn/cvs where appropriate
>> 3) organising a release schedule. In practice, this means doing a new release
>>    when ever enough patches have come in.
>> 4) Updating the website with new tarballs, new zips.
>>
>> As an added extra:
>>
>> 5) add a top level makefile to build packages for the various linuxes -- rpm,
>>    gentoo and the like. Or add autoconf support which should bring the former
>>    nearly for free I think. I'm not a real package expert.
>>
>> Once the release mechanism is fixed, then use can be made of existing
>> patches. This would at least keep JDE ticking over.
>>
>> I'm afraid I am not volunteering here; I rarely code Java these days, so I can
>> live without. But it would be nice to have the option to use Emacs for those
>> occasions that I do.
>>
>> Phil
>
> If nobody objects, I would like to get JDEE set up in sourceforge.  I
> will look into it in more depth this weekend, and submit a list of
> stuff I need to make it happen (the current repository, for instance).
>
> Is there any need to move the website from sunsite to sourceforge?  If
> so, does it have any special requirements (database, etc.)?
>
> I notice that the mailing list is on gmane.org.  Sourceforge offers a
> mailing list, but is there a compelling reason to migrate to it?
>
> Lastly for now, there is the bug tracking system.  I cannot find it on
> google (it doesn't help that I cannot read Japanese).  Are there any
> objections to using bugzilla or some similar standard tool?
>
> Carlos Konstanski
>

Carlos Konstanski