Re: [Java-gnome-developer] Re: New releases and maintenance branch created

[Sean C. <exc...@gm...>]

I think you're absolutly right andrew, you make excellant points.

i'm gonna rattle off a few things here, hope you dont mind...

what is the current tactic to build awareness / user base out there?
why can't we have direct links to packages for some of the major
distros on the website?
if we dont have them - make that a priority (delegate if nessecary)
there needs to be a drive to create a killer app developed in
java-gnome that merits inclusion in major distros.
is there a person dedicated to documentation? are the core maintainers
spread too thin? is there a concrete list of stuff that be made up and
then delegated to willing people on the list? is java-gnome mature,
stable and complete enough for a slashdot or equivilent post?

If there is anything i can do to help out... i'm game, able and have the tim


On Fri, 05 Nov 2004 11:18:08 +1100, Andrew Cowie
<an...@op...> wrote:
> On Thu, 2004-04-11 at 17:20 +0000, Mark Howard wrote:
> > > and I increased the gtk dependency from 2.4 to
> > > 2.5.
> 
> > Please don't do this until it is absolutely necessary (i.e. we depend on some
> > new API).
> 
> I go one further than this and ask that we not bump it at all until it
> is absolutely necessary.
> 
> We are at a critical point now. We have some momentum here but we need
> to significantly grow our user, developer, and hacker base or else the
> project will be in danger of stalling out.
> 
> Downloading code from CVS just for java-gnome is one thing, but asking
> someone to track the entire unstable GNOME development is a much higher
> hurdle.
> 
> So I for one would be very pleased if one could use & develop java-gnome
> on top of an otherwise stable (2.8) gnome platform for some time to
> come.
> 
> There's nothing wrong with a >= gtk 2.4 dependency. Indeed, until GNOME
> development platform makes a 2.x -> 3.x jump, I don't see why java-gnome
> shouldn't be designed to work, out of the box, on several older
> versions. We all know that almost all of our bugs have been around our
> own bindings, not around changes in the underlying API. Actively
> promoting this sort of thing would help us attract new developers by
> making it easier to use j-g for development, and contribute to the
> bindings themselves.
> 
> AfC
> Sydney
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