[Soc-coordination] Weekly Report 10 The OpenJDK and Debian 8.19-8.24 by ShuxiongYe

[heroxbd at gentoo.org]

Dear Shuxiong,

Shuxiong Ye <yeshuxiong at gmail.com> writes:

> 1. Lack of packaging experience. Openjdk8 is a multiple-binary and
> architecture denpendent package. I think I should start from something
> easier, such as findbugs mentioned above, which is a single-binary and
> architecture independent package.

> 2. Lack of Java knowledge. The Java knowledge here I mean is knowing
> the details of Java, how it works, not just simply knowing how to
> write Java program.

Thanks for the clarification.

It would be helpful if you summarize things you tried and failed in
packaging Openjdk8 before giving up, so that people could carry it on.

By the way, do you have a plan to package Openjdk8 after gsoc2013?

Cheers,
Benda