On 09/27/2018 04:34 PM, Neal Gompa wrote: > On Mon, Sep 24, 2018 at 3:39 PM Mikolaj Izdebski <mizdebsk@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> >> Java SIG is dying slowly, this package set recently lost another >> co-maintainer and I don't have time to maintain all these packages by >> myself. Switching to module-only content is probably the best move to >> keep high-quality software delivered to our users and reduce maintenance >> work at the same time. > > Have you done *anything* to try to reinvigorate the Java SIG? I've not > seen anything at all about this problem. No, not anything aimed specifically at this. I am monitoring various channels and help people that try to contribute to Fedora, not only to Java stuff, if that counts. > Do Java folks in the > ecosystem who happen to use RH/Fedora ecosystem stuff know about it? >From what I experienced, people in Java ecosystem are rarely interested in packaging Java for Linux distros. > Are you doing any outreach/advocacy either across the distro ecosystem > or across the Java ecosystem to try to bring interested people in > helping with Java stack work? No, I'm not doing any kind of such activities - TBH human interaction is not amongst my best skills. > > With Rust, we elected to try to become part of the Rust ecosystem, and > we've also taken the tack of working with other distributions to be > able to leverage the efforts across distros to make things better. We > are in the process of reviving the Go SIG in a similar manner. There's > no reason Java couldn't too. And unlike Rust and Go, people *need* > Java for both legacy and new things! Java can be exciting and > interesting, but some effort has to be made to "get the word out". Many things we do for Java packaging is distro-agnostic and I always wanted to have some cross-distro cooperation, but I never had enough time to start connecting with other distros for real. > The Python SIG also does a decent job talking about itself and showing > up at Python events to talk about how Fedora loves Python. Do we love > Java too? That's a good idea, thanks. Maybe having a packaging-oriented talk at some Java conference would help a bit with current situation. > > > -- > 真実はいつも一つ！/ Always, there's only one truth! > _______________________________________________ > devel mailing list -- devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > To unsubscribe send an email to devel-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > Fedora Code of Conduct: https://getfedora.org/code-of-conduct.html > List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines > List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > -- Mikolaj Izdebski Senior Software Engineer, Red Hat IRC: mizdebsk _______________________________________________ devel mailing list -- devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to devel-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Fedora Code of Conduct: https://getfedora.org/code-of-conduct.html List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
