[Bug 123064] Re: Upgrade to Eclipse 3.4.1

[pkt]

I 'd like to invite all subscribers to this bug to <pkg-java-
maintainers at lists.alioth.debian.org>

We are trying to start an effort to get eclipse-3.4 and its ilk in shape
for debian. From there merging it to ubuntu will be much easier.

The big problem is we don't have anyone working full time on this, but I
think we can still make it happen if a large number of people accept to
contribute a small piece of the puzzle each.

Fact: The number of subscribers is well more than 100, if even half of
us contributed a small, trivial task we 'd all enjoy recent eclipse
packages for a long time now, with room to spare for helping overholt,
akurtakov and the other fedora guys upstream. in the linux-distros
project.

Being a newbie is *not* an excuse for not helping. We have lots of
small, "low hanging fruit" tasks for people with skills in unix,
branding stuff (drawing logos etc), packaging, Java, ant, eclipse, XML,
project management etc.

If on the other hand you believe you have no skills whatsoever (and no will to learn) one would wonder why do
you care for an IDE anyway :-)

So, if you are still interested, please come to the above mailing list
and/or in #debian-java in OFTC, introduce yourself and present your
skills and time constraints. Our team is mostly comprised of concerned
users like you, we have at least one debian developer to help with
uploading and such, but no "gurus" and no interest in flaming people (so
no reason to be scared, honestly :-)

Or, you could continue waiting patiently and (judging from history so far) maybe by 2012, eclipse packages will be in ubuntu Vintage Vinegar or something ;-)
 
Cheers,
Pantelis

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