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	Sascha Brawer
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	Mark Wielaard
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<define-tag pr>
	Patrik Reali
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<define-tag cm>
	Casey Marshall
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<define-tag dt>
	Dalibor Topic
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	Michael Koch
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<subject "GNU Classpath Tasklist">

<h1>GNU Classpath Tasklist</h1>

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This list is a collection of tasks for helping GNU Classpath's progress. They are a good starting point if you would like to help in producing a complete and high-quality free Java implementation.

<p>Another source of inspiration are GNU Classpath's <createlink name="task list" url="http://savannah.gnu.org/pm/?group=classpath"> and <createlink name="patch list" url="http://savannah.gnu.org/patch/?group=classpath"> on Savannah, though these are usually meant for the project members.
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<boxtitle>Index</boxtitle>
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<task-section name="Graphics">
<task
	title="javax.imageio"
	estimation="2 weeks"
	skills=""
	contact="<sb> or <mk>"
>
Write an implementation of the javax.imageio framework.
</task>

<task
	title="Constructive Area Geometry"
	estimation="6 weeks (?)."
	skills="Computational geometry skills"
	contact="<sb>"
>
Implement java.awt.geom.Area. This would be useful for some
graphics applications.
</task>

<task
	title="Composite Contexts"
	estimation="2 days for each operator"
	skills="It helps if you are familiar with the java.awt.image framework."
	contact="<sb>"
>
Implement some CompositeContexts for Porter/Duff operators on raster
images. This would be useful for supporting 2D graphics. See
java.awt.AlphaComposite and its createContext method.
</task>

</task-section>

<task-section name="CORBA">
<task
	title="Help with CORBA implementation"
	estimation="This depends from the sub-task you pick."
	skills="Know or be ready to read the OMG documentation."
	contact="Audrius Meskauskas"
>
The development of CORBA in Classpath project have reached 
the stage of surely incomplete, but working prototype. A number of CORBA 
related tasks are available. If you are not a CORBA expert, you should be ready
to learn by reading the OMG specifications and probably by writing some 
relatively simple classes.
</task>
</task-section>

<task-section name="Testing">
<task
	title="Make Mauve an application"
	estimation=""
	skills=""
	contact="<pr>"
>
On some environments, it is not possible to run shell scripts
because there is no shell. Make the Mauve test suite a self-contained
application (one big JAR file).
</task>

<task
	title="Write Mauve tests"
	estimation=""
	skills=""
	contact="<mw>"
>
Write Mauve tests.
</task>

<task
	title="Mauve tests for javax.image.io"
	estimation="1 week"
	skills=""
	contact="<sb>"
>
<p>Write Mauve tests for reading in images. You could use the test images
at libpng.org and write Mauve testlets that load each image from
a file. Compute a hash (such as SHA-1) over the contents of the
DataBuffer. If the hash matches, the test succeeds.
</p><p>
Note that we don't have javax.imageio yet, so you'd have to develop
this with the Sun JDK.
</p>
</task>

<task
	title="Generator for Mauve tests"
	estimation="2 weeks (prototype) + 2 weeks (tuning)"
	skills=""
	contact="<dt>"
>
Write a program which automatically generates basic Mauve tests.


</task>

</task-section>

<task-section name="Automation">

<task
	title="Script for running regression tests"
	estimation="1 week"
	skills="???"
	contact=""
>
Write a script that once a night checks out Classpath from cvs,
compiles it, runs the Mauve test suite (also from cvs) on it
using some free JVM (e.g. Kissme), and posts the results to
some web site. For comparison, it would be very helpful if the
same Mauve testlets were also run with a current Sun JVM.
</task>

<task
	title="Integrate Classpath testsuite into Mauve"
	estimation=""
	skills=""
	contact="<mw>"
>
Classpath has a rather small number of tests in the subdirectories
test/ and testsuite/. Look through these tests and check whether the
same functionality is already tested by Mauve. If not, write a
Mauve testlet and submit it to mauve-patches@sources.redhat.com <mailto:mauve-patches@sources.redhat.com>.
The goal is to remove the test suite from Classpath.
</task>


<task
	title="Script for running Japitools"
	estimation="1 week"
	skills=""
	contact="???"
>
Write a script that once a night checks out Classpath from cvs,
runs Japitools on it, and posts the results on some web site.
</task>

<task
	title="Script for running gjdoc"
	estimation="1 week"
	skills=""
	contact=""
>
Write a script that once a night checks out Classpath from cvs,
runs gjdoc on it, and posts the generated documentation on some
web site. While you're at it, fix gjdoc so it copies embedded
documentation images (classpath-tools support request #102205).
</task>

<task
	title="JAR file verification"
	estimation=""
	skills=""
	contact="<mw>"
>
</task>
</task-section>

<task-section name="Native stuff">

<task
	title="Libiconv Service Provider for java.nio.charset"
	estimation="2 weeks"
	skills=""
	contact=""
>Write a service provider for java.nio.charset that uses the
libiconv library for converting character encodings to and
from UTF-16. This would be a first step for replacing
gnu.java.io.EncodingManager by the java.nio.charset framework,
which is richer and not specific to Classpath.
</task>
</task-section>

<task-section name="Security">

<task
	title="Security Audit"
	estimation=""
	skills=""
	contact=""
>We need to make a pass over the Classpath Java source, making sure
that all required calls to the SecurityManager are in place.  At the same
time we need to ensure that there is no way to get around
SecurityManager by directly calling code in gnu.*.
</task>

<task
	title="Security Testing"
	estimation=""
	skills=""
	contact=""
>We need Mauve tests for all the calls to SecurityManager.
Additionally, enabling a security manager will probably reveal
code in Classpath that needs to be wrapped in AccessController.doPrivileged().
</task>

</task-section>

<task-section name="Related Projects">
<task
	title="Help GNU Crypto"
	estimation=""
	skills=""
	contact="<cm>"
>
</task>
<task
	title="Help Classpath-x"
	estimation=""
	skills=""
	contact=""
>
??? (maybe this should be more specific, e.g. "Write an
IMAP plug-in for javax.mail on top of inetlib" (if they want
this at all)
</task-section>

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