Project:Java

Herds
The Gentoo Java Project maintains the following herds:

Join us!
There is currently a lack of manpower in the Gentoo Java team. While we're happy if you help out e.g. on bugzilla or the java and java-experimental overlays at first, we appreciate much if you sign up as a full Gentoo developer as soon as you can. Experience with non-java ebuilds is helpful for that, too.

Please see the devmanual page on becoming a developer for more details.

Quiz
You can also prepare for the Gentoo Java quiz and have your answers reviewed by a member of the team. See the list of questions.

Next Meeting
When?
 * Feb 26th 2015 @ 21:00 UTC (see below)

Where?
 * #gentoo-java @ irc.freenode.net

Stick your availability in the following doodle
 * http://doodle.com/zg2qubn6sivwddps

Topics
Please put here your ideas what should be discussed with regard to Gentoo Java. Even non-members of java herd are encouraged to put their ideas here, they are welcome! Also please add your nick to your idea so that we can easily track back who brought the idea.
 * Bugzilla is littered with old bugs (2006 onwards), 1/4 of packages out of date, how do we deal with them? (monsieurp)
 * new java devs/recruits: WE NEED MORE PEOPLE TO GET ON BOARD! (monsieurp)
 * possible new recruits in sight: gnu_andrew, zxiiro, Chewi (recruitement underway) (monsieurp)
 * 1.8 is out. many stuff to update/version bump/get rid of (eclasses, packages, etc). (monsieurp)
 * too many overlays: java-experimental, java-overlay? we must define a workflow if we want to keep (all of) them or nuke them (monsieurp) and document the rest on the wiki (fordfrog)
 * move overlay repositories to github under https://github.com/gentoo/java. benefits: more exposure, get more people to contribute, github infrastructure. (monsieurp)
 * do away with g.o/proj/en/java and move the content to wiki - bug #538354 (monsieurp)
 * removal of Java 1.6 - bug #483018 (fordfrog)
 * Java 7 stabilization - bug #384609 (fordfrog)
 * Java 8 stabilization (fordfrog)
 * IcedTea 3/8 in the tree (fordfrog)
 * Upgrading EAPI0/EAPI1/EAPI2 ebuilds - (mrueg)