contributing how? docs and standards where?

Thu Oct 11 14:04:00 GMT 2001

I read up on things and I saw that I need:
"...copyright assignment form filled out."
I thought that I could do that before indulging in code, can you help me?
/N
Quoting Alexandre Petit-Bianco <apbianco@cygnus.com>:
>
> Niklas Fondberg writes:

>
> > I think I can contribute (awt and other stuff). But I want to set

> > myself into the source first. Where do I find coding standards,

>
> You can have a look at the Java section of the gcc web pages:

>
> http://gcc.gnu.org/java/

>
> Especially the `Contributing to the GCJ Project' section:

>
> http://gcc.gnu.org/java/contrib.html

>
> > lists of maintainers

>
> I don't see a MAINTAINERS file in libgcj's tree (a file that should

> have been added after the inclusion of libgcj to the gcc tree, or

> added to gcc's MAINTAINER file; my fault.) Note that authors are

> listed in the individual files and questions usually taken on

> java@gcc.gnu.org.

>
> > and code documentation.

>
> You can go there for some general documentation,

>
> http://gcc.gnu.org/java/docs.html

>
> but you'll probably have to read the code and its comment. Note that

> doxygen has been applied to Classpath (and upstream provider to

> libgcj:)

>
> http://www.klomp.org/mark/classpath/html/

>
> Maybe the same could be done with libgcj's code.

>
> ./A

>
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Niklas Fondberg niklas.fondberg@i3micro.org
System Developer I3 Micro Technology