[java-gnome-hackers] java-gnome-announce mailing list

[Mark H. <mh...@ca...>]

Hi,
  I was just looking at the archives of the java-gnome-announce mailing
lists and noticed that no announcements have been made since pre0.8. 
There's also quite a lot of spam - can't this be made into a list where
authorisation is required to post.

Were any announcement made about 0.8.1 anywhere?

I'd suggest that we should send an announcement out now about the recent
releases. There may be people subscribed to -announce who were waiting
for a gnome2 port but not following the project. In terms of publicity
for the project, I also think that now is the time to be letting people
know about java-gnome -- recent newbies to -developer have been giving
great feedback and more importantly patches. I'd suggest that we should
also send these announcements to places like gnomedesktop.org and gnome
mailing lists (possibly java too?).

Perhaps something like the following should be sent out now. Should I
send this? Is there anything else to add?

Java-Gnome Releases
-------------------

The Java-Gnome project is proud to announce the recent releases of
java-gnome 0.8 and 0.8.1 bringing full support for gtk/gnome 2, many bug
fixes and performance enhancements.

Java-Gnome is a set of libraries for creating GTK and GNOME applications
in the Java programming language. This has two user bases:

- Java developers wanting an intuitive well designed API for creating
  Graphical applications, as well as robust automatic GUI building tools
  via the glade program (using libglade). 
- Gnome developers wanting a simpler API for writing graphical
  applications, taking advantage of the many java libraries and without
  having to worry about memory.

Java-Gnome supports the latest major releases of GNOME, GTK and Glade,
as well as a number of smaller libraries such as libvte. 

Performance is similar to that of native gnome applications. 
Java-Gnome builds and runs using entirely free software, however the
license does not impose on users wanting to create commercial products
with Java-Gnome. 

Java-Gnome is available from the website as source tarballs (for
compilation to Java bytecode, or compilation to Native libraries using
gcj so that applications will not require a JVM in order to run), rpm
packages. Java-Gnome is also available in the Debian sid distribution in
the packages libgnome0-java, libgtk0-java, libgnome0-java and
libjava-gnome-doc.

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http://java-gnome.sf.net
  
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