<div dir="ltr"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sun, Aug 10, 2008 at 12:07 PM, Robert Lemmen <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:robertle@semistable.com">robertle@semistable.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<div class="Ih2E3d">On Sat, Aug 09, 2008 at 11:08:55PM +0100, Neil McGovern wrote:<br>
> So we don't have any unpleasant surprises, please give us a status<br>
> update *NOW*. I'll send out more info about the reports and evaluations<br>
> at the end.</div></blockquote><div><br>I apologize for the delay, my first reply did not go to the list (oops)!<br><br>Unfortunately, much the same story can be told of the Jigdo-Ivory
project as debexpo. Steve has done 100% of what is needed thus far as a
mentor. We called a little bit of an audible on my judgment with the
attempt to incorporate Java applets to improve the performance of the
project at mid-term.<br>
<br>Unfortunately, it took me two weeks to learn what I felt was
necessary to get it working properly, and I was out for a week ill.
Long story short, Mozilla has revamped their Java support between
version 2 and 3 and I have been unable to produce the results I
expected. I continue to try and salvage the work done with Java, and
provide a client with adequate performance.<br>
<br>This is not a surrender by any means, there will be several hours
of extra time put into this project to see it through to the deadline.
However, if I am unable to produce what is acceptable I am in agreement
that it's not worthy of the "give me $2000" button. Once again, I have
not given up, but my report needs to be honest and straightforward, no
matter what the nature of the news.<br>
<br>The good news is that I intend to keep working with this project
long after summer of code is finished, and after the dust settles with
Firefox 3, I should be able to get Java and JavaScript communicating
much better. At that point my work will be worth it, I anticipate a
good browser based Jigdo app in the future, I just hope that it is
before the deadline.<br>
<br>Thanks for all the support and patience,<br>Dustin<br><br>(I should be meeting with a friend in the next day or so that has more experience working with applets, hopefully it can get straightened out.)<br></div></div>
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