This happens on a daily basis.

I couldn’t hold back referencing the above story I’ve seen while reading about the
WikiLeaks case Collateral Murder.

Like shown in the Brian De Palma movie Redacted,
it seems soldiers trying to perform their job are hardly prepared for it, or worse, are actually doing what they are trained for. Their lack of training, education and their demanding and careless superiors might be the reason and responsible elements, allowing these cruel violations of life. Of course, war itself, the decision of violent engagement are the main culprits here.

Surely I am not qualified to judge such incidents, no comparison of incidents/murder would make any sense,
since life is subjective and unique, which man has stolen – no matter how.

If we are not willing to end our military expansion efforts, maybe someone in the government may change the rules of engagement in favor for the civilians, so soldiers will get properly trained and take responsibility for all their actions. The latter would imply their right of conscientious objection, as established in Germany.

However – there is no such thing as a nice & clean war.

Peace

3D & Multimedia Across Platforms and Devices Using JOGL

Tuesday, 27 July | 4:00 PM – 6:00 PM | Los Angeles Convention Center Room 507

This session discusses the features, contributions, and future of
OpenGL, OpenCL, and OpenMax across devices and OS
exposed on top of Java using the JogAmp open-source libraries.

Sven Gothel
sgothel (at) jausoft.com

JogAmp

Until then, we work hard to have at least the following platforms working stable:

• linux-x86_64
• linux-x86
• window-x86_64
• window-x86
• macosx-x86_64
• macosx-x86

utilizing deployment methods

• Applet: applet-loader (fallback)
• Applet: JNLP (where available)
• Webstart: JNLP (where available)
• Pre-Installed JARs (static last-resort (mobile))

where Applet shall work with

• Firefox 3.x
• IE x.y
• Safari z.y

Further more a mobile device running JOGL on top of it shall be done, if time allows
and the ordered beagleboard, an OMAP 3530 device arrives.

Hope to see you there, if you are there

However, all our results will be visible as usual via jogamp.org.

However, with the great help of Michael Bien, we are close to something here:

• Main http://jogamp.org
• Wiki http://jogamp.org/wiki/
• SCM http://jogamp.org/git/
• Bugzilla http://jogamp.org/bugzilla/
• Our Forum/Mailinglist http://jogamp.762907.n3.nabble.com/
• Gathered News and Blogs http://jogamp.org/blog/
• Gathered Video Streams http://jogamp.org/stream/
• Automated build and test http://jogamp.org/chuck/
• The next JNLP base http://jogamp.org/deployment/webstart-next/

So again .. we are not dead yet

Our first intermediate-term goals are

• reproduce automated builds
• recreated all web resources on free server space
• receive a signature for the JAR files

Then we wish to continue with the actual development and deployment

Contributions are very welcome, and a new sponsor might be needed.

Further details about the project changes will be posted soon.

Thank you very much .. stay tuned.

Fixes: Swing/Java2D OpenGL usage, PBuffer usage

Adds: OpenGL 3.2 instantiation with WGL/GLX and incl. their extensions in GL3

Changes: Proper extension promotion/aliasing for OpenGL 3.0,3.1 and 3.2

The new repository homepages are:

http://kenai.com/projects/gluegen/
http://kenai.com/projects/jogl/

Create a local copy/branch of the git repository,
either anonymous:

git clone git://kenai.com/gluegen~gluegen-git gluegen
git clone git://kenai.com/jogl~jogl-git jogl
git clone git://kenai.com/jogl~jogl-demos-git jogl-demos

or via SSH and your user credential, so you can easily push back your
changes to the kenai server:

git clone ssh://username@git.kenai.com/gluegen~gluegen-git gluegen
git clone ssh://username@git.kenai.com/jogl~jogl-git jogl
git clone ssh://username@git.kenai.com/jogl~jogl-demos-git jogl-demos

TODO:

• autobuild git repository checkout (WIP)
• webpages / manual automatically checked-out by autobuild and hosted on download.java.net
• …

Abandoning SVN in our projects (gluegen, jogl and jogl-demos) for the various reasons, http://git.or.cz/gitwiki/GitSvnComparsion,
we had to choose a new SCM.

Here are some reasons why git wins over mercurial/hg,

• http://whygitisbetterthanx.com/
• http://importantshock.wordpress.com/2008/08/07/git-vs-mercurial/,
• http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=577976

especially the branch/merge handling, maturity and wide growing user base favors git.
However, it may also be just a matter of taste ..

Some git resources:

• git wiki
• git tutorial
• git everyday
• git cheat sheet
• git crash course for svn users
• git documentation
• msysgit – git for MS Windows

SVN to git Conversion

The conversion demonstrated here is using the dev.java.net gluegen repository as an example, we have converted the jogl and jogl-demos the same way.

We have used git version 1.6.3.3.

Instead of using git-svn directly, we utilize the tool svn-all-fast-export, http://repo.or.cz/w/svn-all-fast-export.git,
which not only uses a fast local SVN repository, but also migrates all local branches and tags to git branches.
The latter is true, SVN tags converted to git branches, since SVN tags are actually branches.

Update: It turns out that the tool http://repo.or.cz/w/svn-all-fast-export.git
is not able to find the proper tag and branch points within the original repository,
hence we will use git-svn.

Directory Layout

We assume the following layout ..

/../JOGL
/../JOGL/svn-server-sync
/../JOGL/svn
/../JOGL/git-svn

All subsequent action start from the root directory JOGL.

SVN Preperation

Clone Repository

Update: This task is optional. However it is highly recommended since it dramatically speeds up the SVN checkout process.

First we create a local clone of the SVN repository. This is already tricky, since the svn versions are not backward compatible,
i.e. dev.java.net SVN repository cannot be synchronized with svn version 1.6. The latest compatible version is svn 1.5.2.
Here we used an installed svn version 1.4.4 from a MacOSX machine!

1: mkdir svn-server-sync
2: cd svn-server-sync
3: svnadmin create gluegen
4: cp gluegen/hooks/pre-revprop-change.tmpl gluegen/hooks/pre-revprop-change
5: vi gluegen/hooks/pre-revprop-change
6: chmod ugo+x gluegen/hooks/pre-revprop-change
7: svnsync --username userid --password pwd init file://`pwd`/gluegen https://gluegen.dev.java.net/svn/gluegen
8: svnsync sync file://`pwd`/gluegen

Step [1..3] create the local SVN repository.

Steps [4..6] create the svn critical hook file and makes it writeable, while step 5 edits it as follows:

diff -Nur gluegen/hooks/pre-revprop-change.tmpl gluegen/hooks/pre-revprop-change
--- gluegen/hooks/pre-revprop-change.tmpl       2009-07-08 09:18:55.000000000 -0700
+++ gluegen/hooks/pre-revprop-change    2009-07-08 09:20:06.000000000 -0700
@@ -60,6 +60,8 @@
 PROPNAME="$4"
 ACTION="$5"

+exit 0
+
 if [ "$ACTION" = "M" -a "$PROPNAME" = "svn:log" ]; then exit 0; fi

 echo "Changing revision properties other than svn:log is prohibited" >&2

Step 7 links the local SVN repository  to it’s remote master.

Step 8 finally pulls it down to our local copy.

This is done for the jogl and jogl-demos repositories as well.

Create author mapping file

Create a svn.authors file, which maps the svn author names to git author names:

#!/bin/bash
authors=$(svn log -q | grep -e '^r' | awk 'BEGIN { FS = "|" } ; { print $2 }' | sort | uniq)
for author in ${authors}; do
  echo "${author} = ${author} <${author}@dev.java.net>" >> svn.authors ;
done

Use the above script in all of your original checked-out svn repository directories (gluegen, jogl and jogl-demos) to catch all author names.
Fix the svn.authors file’s email addresses if appropriate.
Add the mandatory author names:

(no author) = First Last <no.author@domain.net>
gfxadmin = gfxadmin <gfxadmin@domain.net>
root = root <root@domain.net>
httpd = httpd <httpd@domain.net>

Move old local SVN repositories

We move away the old SVN checkouts ..

mkdir svn
mv gluegen jogl jogl-demos svn/

Converting to git

Preperation

Get the tool svn-all-fast-export, http://repo.or.cz/w/svn-all-fast-export.git, via git clone git://repo.or.cz/svn-all-fast-export.git, build and install it.

Go our parent directory JOGL, where svn-server-sync resides.

mkdir git-svn
cd git-svn

Copy the previously created svn.authors file to this directory git-svn.

Copy the file merged-branches-tags.rules out of the checked out svn-all-fast-export.git
repository, svn-all-fast-export/samples/merged-branches-tags.rules, to this directory git-svn.

Converting

cd git-svn

We customize the svn-all-fast-export configuration file, here for gluegen:
sed ’s/myproject/gluegen/g’ merged-branches-tags.rules > gluegen-merged-branches-tags.rules

git svn --authors-file=./svn.authors clone -s file://`pwd`/../svn-server-sync/gluegen gluegen 2>&1 | tee gluegen.log

This task migrates the SVN repository to git, note that all tags of the SVN repository are represented as branches within git,
which we will fix within the next step. Don’t forget to check the log file, here gluegen.log.

In case somethings goes wrong, ie the task is incompete, e.g. due to a missing author-name mapping,
fix that error (add author-name to svn.authors) and continue:

cd gluegen
git svn --authors-file=../svn.authors fetch  2>&1 | tee ../gluegen-2.log

Pick remote branches & manual tagging

cd git-svn/gluegen

The converted repository has referenced branches to the remote SVN origin,
we have to pick these and make them local.

Also, as mentioned above, SVN tags are actually branches, so we have to converted them to git tags.

git branch -a
* master
  remotes/1.0b06-maint
  remotes/1.0b06a
  remotes/JOGL_2_SANDBOX
  remotes/tags/1.0b06
  remotes/tags/1.0b06a
  remotes/trunk
git tag -l

The above shows us a few remote branches and no tags.

We have to distinguish the remote branches from the tags,
which is easy at looking at the SVN branches page.  Valid remote branches are 1.0b06-maint and the JOGL_2_SANDBOX.
The below commands create local branches from the remote ones.

git checkout --track -b 1.0b06-maint remotes/1.0b06-maint
git checkout --track -b JOGL_2_SANDBOX remotes/JOGL_2_SANDBOX

Last but not least, we have to manually create git tags from the fake SVN tags, which are visible as remotes/tags/* branches.

1: git checkout --track -b tag_1.0b06 remotes/tags/1.0b06
2: git checkout --track -b tag_1.0b06a remotes/tags/1.0b06a
3: git checkout master
4: git tag 1.0b06 tag_1.0b06
5: git tag 1.0b06a tag_1.0b06a
6: git branch -D tag_1.0b06 tag_1.0b06a
7: git branch -a
  1.0b06-maint
  JOGL_2_SANDBOX
* master
  remotes/1.0b06-maint
  remotes/1.0b06a
  remotes/JOGL_2_SANDBOX
  remotes/tags/1.0b06
  remotes/tags/1.0b06a
  remotes/trunk
8: git tag -l
  1.0b06
  1.0b06a
9: git branch -r -D 1.0b06-maint 1.0b06a JOGL_2_SANDBOX tags/1.0b06 tags/1.0b06a trunk
X: git branch -a
  1.0b06-maint
  JOGL_2_SANDBOX
* master

Step [1..2] creates local branches with the prefix tag_ from the remote ones.
Step 3 switches back to the master branch
Step [4..5] creates tags from the local branches
Step 6 deletes the local branches, which we just have tagged.
Step 7 shows the branches
Step 8 shows the tags
Step 9 removes the remote branches, which disconnects us from the svn repository
Step X: shows the branches

In case you have many branches, you may use a simple shell script, fed with a file containing the branch names,
without the ref-path (remotes/)

#! /bin/sh

branchfile=$1
shift

if [ -z "$branchfile" ] ; then
    echo Usage $0 branchfile containing branchnames without ref path
    exit 1
fi

for i in `cat $branchfile` ; do
    git checkout --track -b $i remotes/$i
    git checkout master
    git branch -r -D $i
done

In case you have many tags, you may use a simple shell script, fed with a file containing the tag names,
without the ref-path (remotes/tags/)

#! /bin/sh

tagfile=$1
shift

if [ -z "$tagfile" ] ; then
    echo Usage $0 tagfile containing tagnames without ref path
    exit 1
fi

for i in `cat $tagfile` ; do
    git checkout --track -b tag_"$i" remotes/tags/$i
    git tag $i tag_"$i"
    git checkout master
    git branch -D tag_"$i"
    git branch -r -D tags/$i
done

Cleanup

1: cd git-svn/gluegen
2: git gc
3: cd ..
4: git clone --mirror gluegen gluegen.git

Since the conversion left a lot of dirt in the git repository, and we have joggled around with a lot branches,
we want to manually garbage collect (gc) our folder with the Step 2.
Step 4 creates a bare mirror clone of the cleaned up git repository, you may like to use this as a backup.

Pre cleanup: 15MByte, post cleanup 6.6MByte, bare mirror 2.7M.

Publish git repository to the server

cd git-svn/gluegen.git

Now we push our conversion to the git server’s repository:

git push --mirror ssh://username@git.kenai.com/gluegen~gluegen-git

The mirror option ensures a 1:1 copy including all branches and tags.

git Usage

We assume to be in our root directory JOGL.

No more gluegen, jogl or jogl-demos directory exist anymore, since we moved it away to the new subdirectory svn.

Clone

1a: git clone git://kenai.com/gluegen~gluegen-git  gluegen
1b: git clone ssh://username@git.kenai.com/gluegen~gluegen-git gluegen
2: cd gluegen
3: git branch -a
4: git remote show origin

Step 1a or 1b creates the local gluegen git clone in the directory gluegen,
where 1a is the anonymous checkout and 1b uses the SSH login shell remote connection,
the latter is recommended for putbacks.

Step 2 cd’s into it.

Step 3 lists all branches.

Step 4 shows remote tracked branches

Checkout a remote tracked branch

In case you like to browse around within some branch, which is not yet local, ie remote,
you have to checkout the remote one to become local, ie the JOGL_2_SANDBOX.

git remote show origin
git checkout --track -b JOGL_2_SANDBOX origin/JOGL_2_SANDBOX
git checkout JOGL_2_SANDBOX

Then you can switch between local branches as usual ..

Switch local branches

git checkout JOGL_2_SANDBOX
git checkout master

Remove a remote branch on server

You may have created and published the new branch my_branch derived from master:

git branch --track my_branch origin/master
git checkout my_branch
.. changes ..
pit push --all

.. or you were using a remote branch ..

git checkout --track -b my_branch origin/my_branch
git checkout my_branch
.. changes ..
git push --all

Now we like to remove the branch my_branch,
and remove it on the server as well.

1: git branch -D my_branch
2: git push origin :refs/heads/my_branch

Step 1 removes the branch my_branch in the local repository.
Step 2 removes the branch my_branch on the server repository.

Another user may want to clean up the local repository, ie remove a tracked remote branch:

1: git branch -r -D origin/my_branch
2: git fetch

Last but not least …

.. participation and contributions.

Git’s model is not really layed out for central SCM,
sure it can be abused as such, as you have seen above.

It’s real powers are it’s distribution qualities!

Either a contributor has it’s own repository online via a webserver or ssh access,
or she can send the patch via email.
However it is offered to an integrator within the chain of trust (in a project),
she asks the integrator to pull the branch via the mentioned online or email content.
The integrator then verifies the patch somehow and merges it to her own branch, etc etc.
These are the key features of git,
a very reliable high performance branching and merging.

At least we shall maintain the FAQ and Wiki page, would be great.

The next thing would be to pull over the svn repository for gluegen, jogl and jogl-demos.
I personally would prefer using git from now on ..

Anybody likes to maintain jogl-utils ?

• Homepage: http://kenai.com/projects/jogl/
• Wiki: http://kenai.com/projects/jogl/pages/Home
• FAQ: http://kenai.com/projects/jogl/pages/FAQ

The above media reflect the current surveillance situation in our free countries,
where all citizen communication and transactions are logged and analyzed.

Additional locatable ID cards incl. biometric data, internet filter and surveillance
and last but not least associating protest with low level terrorism led to an omnipotent government
violating the constitutional rights of it’s constituent, the people.

Yes, it’s already there .. in your country, EU, USA, .. reclaim your freedom.

When the Nazis came for the communists,
I remained silent;
I was not a communist.Then they locked up the social democrats,
I remained silent;
I was not a social democrat.

Then they came for the trade unionists,
I did not protest;
I was not a trade unionist.

Then they came for the Jews,
I did not speak out;
I was not a Jew.

When they came for me,
there was no one left to speak out for me.

Martin Niemöller, 1892-1984

Just a little time ago, we learned about the pirate bay court case, the best outcome of it might be the birth of the Pirate Party, world wide.
Why this name, why pirates? Well, in the court case they were accused to act like pirates for offering URL’s (links/references) to any form of media transported via the torrent peer-to-peer protocol. For the computer literate this is as if you were responsible for actions of others, just because you have referenced them in your book – choose the media of your choice.

This court case might have led reaching critical mass to wake up the people. Utilizing the very responsibility every citizen has within a democracy, act – don’t expect others to help your case. Especially not the other, not literate enough to understand the high potential risk our still free society is currently undergoing.

• The Patriot Act vs Freedom of Speech
• Patent Law vs Innovation & Invention
• Copyright vs Accessible Information

.. just to name a few collisions, threatening our very room for development, which somehow is granted  in all our constitutions – if you enjoy such privileges.

Following the USA Patriot Act, the German government for example logs all communications headers (from-, to-address, date and time, etc) of text messages, emails, phone calls etc. Lately they even ruled in favor of a Internet filter/censorship infrastructure using the excuse that the Internet shall not be a realm without law. Indeed the ridiculous and very publicity case of child pornography was being (ab)used. Abused because even experts in this fields know that those criminals won’t just surf on such a website, use other medias or at least high encryption systems – which goes for all criminal, and the latter for all information sensitive citizens. Welcome 1984. Sanctity of the mail, privacy. Without such and with available information of who consumes what and which side you are on – especially even being aware of it – renders many people silent. Shock and Awe established (9/11, terror, crime, war, ..) and anticipatory obedience expected, otherwise ridiculed or just declared as an enemy. Welcome to 2009.

The bad economy actually helping the situation. Who is still willing to stand up and speak for themselves?
Risking loosing the job, probably no health insurance .. etc.
Of course, I have though about the risks of blabbering my thoughts in public, but in the end, it is our very duty to defend our democracy, our constitution,
for ourselves, for the future of our children and our deer fellow citizens of this planet.
(I don’t call it nation, since this meaning is buried for a long time already. Our societies are intermingled and all depend on each other, the powerful so called western world vs the still unprivileged countries, which we will free, since they shall become valuable trade partners in the future.)
Being afraid to speak out contrarian ideas might be an indication of the lack of independence, the absence of freedom.

Our still free countries become more alike Iran, China or other totalitarian regimes, don’t say it can’t happen here.
Speak up – speak loud & clear, defend our free system – whatever you think it is, capitalism or socialism.
To be honest, the declaration, the law doesn’t matter, if it is not executed by it’s book.

True competition without subsidies and artificial patent claims might be as healthy as a Star Trek society which tries to reach out for a common goal,
as long we hold on to our ethics and love our competitors. Just to provoke a little debate

After all this blabbering .. you may ask what has all of this to do with the Pirate Parties ?
Read their website – they all deal with these issues – the very building blocks of our freedom, privacy & innovative potential.

Since I currently live in the beautiful State of California,
I hopefully honor this day with a  call to reclaim our freedom and wish all of you a happy 4th of July!

• The Pirate Party goes international, world wide.
  • Embassy of Piracy
  • Hackers Without Borders
  • OpenNet Initiative
  • The Bank of Common Knowledge

• Pirate Party of the USA
  • Memo Wiki (issues .. pre manifest)
• Pirate Party of Canada
  • Issues .. (pre manifest)
• Pirate Party of Germany
  • Manifest (german)
  • Manifest (google-english translation)