general question about java port PRs

[Panagiotis Astithas]

Mark Linimon wrote:
> I was surprised to find that some of the Java ports had PRs filed
> against them, but not under the 'ports' category, instead under the
> 'java' classification.  As some of you may be aware, I have written a
> set of programs that attempt to track the status of ports PRs and
> correlate them with build errors seen on the build farm (among other
> data: see portsmon.firepipe.net).  However, I only track things under
> 'ports', not 'java'.
> 
> Shouldn't the 'java' category be reserved for such things as problems
> with the JDK/JREs, or would you prefer that these ports PRs be left in
> that category as well?

I have been wondering about that as well. I believe that the 'java' 
category should be reserved for JDKs. Ordinary port upgrades and problem 
reports could benefit from the larger pool of commiters & volunteers 
monitoring the freebsd-ports list. I think that only three persons 
attend to java PRs (glewis, phantom & znerd).

Cheers,
-- 
Panagiotis Astithas
Electrical & Computer Engineer, PhD
Network Management Center
National Technical University of Athens, Greece