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Resolve bug, changing resolution to THATSNOTABUGTHATSAFEATURE

Norman Hendrich has supplied us with a stream of very high quality bug reports. Today he filed a “bug” to celebrate the hard work of Lillian, Roman, Tom F.,Tony and all other Free Swing and AWT hackers. It will be a pleasure to close this bug :) Update: Norman said some nice things on the […]

05 Oct 2005

First GNU Classpath irc coordination meeting Please join the fun on irc.gnu.org in channel #classpath.

All Green!

David showed that the JUnit swing frontend worked. And it pointed out some serialization issues with jcommon. So they got quickly fixed in GNU Classpath and now we have: This looks like a useful tool to get more bugs fixed. Everybody loves seeing green bars! :)

01 Oct 2005

DevJam Reports The GNU Classpath distro DevJam was a great success. It seems we brought some harmony into the hearts and minds of the different distributions (Ubuntu, SkoleLinux, Debian, Fedora, Suse, Gentoo, OpenEmbedded) that participated. And being able to talk and debug some issues with several of the upstream projects involved (GNU Classpath, kaffe, gcj, […]

ComboBox Demo

David Gilbert added another Demo to GNU Classpath Examples: Nice work! Free Swing is slowly getting better and better.

29 Sep 2005

LWN article on Oldenburg DevJam lwn.net published my article about the GNU Classpath distro DevJam – Europe.Subscribe to LWN to read it now, or wait till next week when it is available for non-subscribers.

DevJam was great…

… but apparently not where the action really was. Returning home I was greeted by an INBOX containing: Reworked JComponent and JViewport painting for much faster and flicker free swing by Roman. An imageio BMP-reader plugin by Sven. The start of java.util.Formatter by Tom. Completion of BoxLayout by Roman. Diffie Hellman key algorithms by Casey. […]

OpenJump starting up

No, we didn’t just drink beer. Wolfgang Bär and I (with some remote help from Lillian) got Jump Unified Mapping Platform starting up: This will be a really nice application to get working completely, lots of stuff to fix :)

24 Sep 2005

Advogato bloggers are back Hurray!. Thanks to quad all the Planet Classpath advogator blogs have been reinstated.

Advogato disappears?

Sorry for those with advogato diaries. I have temporarily removed them from Planet Classpath till I figure out where advogato went.