Re: jde-import-kill-extra-imports not working

Carlos Konstanski <[email protected]> Sat, 03 Nov 2007 15:05:58 -0600
Newsgroups gmane.emacs.jdee
Message-ID <87r6j7avk9.wl%[email protected]>
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

OK, the weekend is here and I am ready to do this thing.  First of
all, do we have buyoff from the author/current maintainer to move JDEE
to sourceforge?  I hereby officially ask the individual(s) in charge
if it's all right for me to set up a JDEE sourceforge project and move
the CVS repository there, in accordance with the promises I made
earlier in this thread.