Which Java open source project would you like someone to start?
+2
A:
A decent package manager like CPAN which currently has 17592 modules.
Rook
2010-04-20 19:26:45
Taken a look at maven? http://maven.apache.org/
Steven Schlansker
2010-04-20 19:33:25
Maven is too much, but Ivy is similar.
ZeissS
2010-04-20 19:35:14
I remember seeing Maven back before 1.0 It looks like the project has matured, although CPAN is still the largest language specific package manager.
Rook
2010-04-20 19:51:09
@Zeiss, Ivy just offers a different access mechanism to the existing maven repositories, without using the maven tool.
crowne
2010-04-20 20:52:29
Btw: Maven is not language specific.
Willi
2010-04-20 21:52:38
+4
A:
You should look on sourceforge projects. Some are looking for developers : http://sourceforge.net/people/
You should be able to find one that please you to work on.
Thierry
2010-04-20 19:29:20
+3
A:
I agree with Thierry.
As far as I see it we don't necessarily need more projects, we need high quality projects, like the Apache Commons projects.
For that, maintainers on existing projects who fix bugs, write documentation and examples and possibly optimize code are more important than more projects, especially projects with only one developer.
extraneon
2010-04-20 19:38:53
I disagree but i won't give you a -1. We need new programmers with new ideas to create entirely new software projects. Existing projects are maturing with new debugging and profile technologies like dtrace.
Rook
2010-04-20 19:52:31
@extraneon: I'm not exactly sure Apache Commons qualifies as a "quality" project. Spring, sure... But Apache Commons... errrrmmmm (I do use it, but it's hardly "high quality").
Webinator
2010-04-20 19:53:44
They don't support Java5, they use bad code formatting. not everything is optimal. However Common-Lang has code coverage 92,4%.
01
2010-04-21 05:58:46
@The Rook New ideas are great, but sourceforge is full of projects with possibly interesting ideas but one developer who stopped maintenance a long time ago. And that's just not very useful for me.
extraneon
2010-04-21 07:32:23
A:
I think you should look at your own work and private usage of computer and see if there is anything boring that you do manually, but it could be done by computer(or assisted by computer).
For Example extracting strings from jsp files into properties file. Eclipse supports extracting it only from java files, maybe you could extend that plugin to also support jsp(or xhtml if you are using facelets). I bet they have some-sort of abstract syntax tree for those files in Eclipse or you could have fun with writing your own parser(or using regex).
01
2010-04-20 20:29:02
I'm already doing this :) But I'm thinking about improve my project with somethink usable to more developers.
Tom Brito
2010-04-20 20:55:58