[gentoo-dev] News item: Dropping Java support on ia64

[gentoo-dev] News item: Dropping Java support on ia64

[Petteri Räty]

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Any improvements to the text are welcome.

Regards,
Petteri

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Title: Pending Removal of Java support in ia64
Author: Petteri Räty <betelgeuse@gentoo.org>
Author: IA64 Arch Team <ia64@gentoo.org>
Content-Type: text/plain
Posted: 2010-11-14
Revision: 1
News-Item-Format: 1.0
Display-If-Keyword: ia64
Display-If-Installed: dev-java/java-config

The IA64 arch team does not have the resources to maintain Java support so we
agreed that support will be dropped unless more man power becomes available.
If you are willing to help maintaining support please contact ia64@gentoo.org.
If there is no interest the removal of Java support well be done during week
50 of year 2010.

The removal is tracked in bug #345433.

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Re: [gentoo-dev] News item: Dropping Java support on ia64

["Paweł Hajdan, Jr."]

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On 11/14/10 8:36 PM, Petteri Räty wrote:
> The IA64 arch team does not have the resources to maintain Java support so we
> agreed that support will be dropped unless more man power becomes available.

Could you also add the info to
<http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/devrel/staffing-needs/> ?

Moreover, what does dropping support mean? Are there any packages that
are not obviously java-related (i.e. not in dev-java), but will have
dropped support?

> If you are willing to help maintaining support please contact ia64@gentoo.org.
> If there is no interest the removal of Java support well be done during week
> 50 of year 2010.

IMHO a date range would be more readable than a week number.


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Re: [gentoo-dev] News item: Dropping Java support on ia64

[Alistair Bush]

> Any improvements to the text are welcome.

I think the following could be written clearer.   Reading it made me have to 
go off and check what week 50 was.

"If there is no interest the removal of Java support well be done during week
50 of year 2010."

why not say

'If there is no interest the removal of Java support well be done during the 
week starting 13th Dec 2010."

(please confirm the date on that)

> 
> Regards,
> Petteri

Re: [gentoo-dev] News item: Dropping Java support on ia64

[Nirbheek Chauhan]

On Mon, Nov 15, 2010 at 1:16 AM, Alistair Bush <ali_bush@gentoo.org> wrote:
>> Any improvements to the text are welcome.
>
> I think the following could be written clearer.   Reading it made me have to
> go off and check what week 50 was.
>

52 weeks in a year, so, effectively "last two weeks of the year".

-- 
~Nirbheek Chauhan

Gentoo GNOME+Mozilla Team

Re: [gentoo-dev] News item: Dropping Java support on ia64

[Jorge Manuel B. S. Vicetto]

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On 14-11-2010 18:41, "Paweł Hajdan, Jr." wrote:
> On 11/14/10 8:36 PM, Petteri Räty wrote:
>> The IA64 arch team does not have the resources to maintain Java support so we
>> agreed that support will be dropped unless more man power becomes available.
> 
> Could you also add the info to
> <http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/devrel/staffing-needs/> ?

That page is generated automatically from info on project pages[1]. For
more info about ProjectXML writing, check the guide[2].

 [1] - http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/metastructure/projectxml.xml#doc_chap3
 [2] - http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/metastructure/projectxml.xml


- -- 
Regards,

Jorge Vicetto (jmbsvicetto) - jmbsvicetto at gentoo dot org
Gentoo- forums / Userrel / Devrel / KDE / Elections / RelEng
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Re: [gentoo-dev] News item: Dropping Java support on ia64 (retry)

[Vlastimil Babka]

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Hi,

since Betelgeuse didn't actually commit the news item in November, 
here's my try. Slightly reworded the text, comments welcome. Otherwise I 
plan to commit this on Friday.

Thanks,
Vlastimil

On 11/14/2010 08:36 PM, Petteri Räty wrote:
> Any improvements to the text are welcome.
>
> Regards,
> Petteri


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Title: Pending Removal of Java support on ia64
Author: Petteri Räty <betelgeuse@gentoo.org>
Author: IA64 Arch Team <ia64@gentoo.org>
Author: Vlastimil Babka <caster@gentoo.org>
Content-Type: text/plain
Posted: 2011-02-18
Revision: 1
News-Item-Format: 1.0
Display-If-Keyword: ia64
Display-If-Installed: dev-java/java-config

Since the IA64 arch team does not have the resources to maintain Java support, we
have agreed that ia64 keywords will be dropped from Java packages, and the java USE
flag masked on ia64, unless more manpower becomes available.
If you are willing to help with the maintenance, please contact ia64@gentoo.org.
If there is no interest, the removal of Java support well be done during the second
half of March 2011.

The removal is tracked in bug #345433.

Re: [gentoo-dev] News item: Dropping Java support on ia64 (retry)

[Petteri Räty]

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On 02/15/2011 05:15 PM, Vlastimil Babka wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> since Betelgeuse didn't actually commit the news item in November,
> here's my try. Slightly reworded the text, comments welcome. Otherwise I
> plan to commit this on Friday.
> 

Thanks for picking this up again.

Petteri


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Re: [gentoo-dev] News item: Dropping Java support on ia64 (retry)

[Sebastian Pipping]

The sentence

  "If there is no interest, the removal of Java support well be done
   during the second half of March 2011."

seems to have some bugs.

I suppose "well be done" was meant to be "will be done"?
                                           ^
But maybe "the removal [..] will be done" could use re-writing, too.
How about this:

  "If there is no interest, Java support will be removed
   from IA64 during the second half of March 2011."

Best,



Sebastian