On 30 August 2010 15:17, Stanislav Ochotnicky <sochotnicky@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hi everyone, > > There has been an effort few years back to start Java SIG but it didn't > work out in the end (no idea why). I decided it's time to try again :-) > > I would like to start Java SIG for a lot of reasons. Some of them: > > * Packaging guidelines are in need of an update (badly) > * Consistency in java packages is somewhat lacking > * More eyes see more approach, I'd like for all java related commits to > go through an alias so we can all watch out for changes that can > break our stuff > * Have a place where we can collect tips & tricks, solutions to common > problems etc. Currently this information is scattered through > people's wiki pages > * Java needs collaboration more than most other areas, because problems > cannot be safely discovered automatically when someone changes > dependency. This can cause serious headaches (to me at least). Java > SIG to the rescue! :-) > * Other languages have their own SIGs and we don't! :-) > > Who am I? > Owner/Co-maintainer of a bunch of Java packages (mostly maven plugins, > apache-commons, junit, velocity, checkstyle, plexus > libraries). Involved in recent update of maven to v2.2.1. > > Reply if you're interested with helping out and being able to > see/influence where Java packaging in Fedora is going. I know there will > be at least a few people joining in. > > I'll be starting Java SIG wiki page soon, plus I guess we can peruse > java-devel mailing list for SIG discussions. > > > I would definitely join the SIG. I mostly maintain Eclipse plugins and various low level Java libraries. https://admin.fedoraproject.org/pkgdb/users/packages/mbooth?acls=owner&acls=approveacls&acls=commit I personally would like to see automatic OSGi dep-solving in RPM get off the ground :-) https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=488352 -- Mat Booth http://fedoraproject.org/get-fedora -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
