On Wed, 29 Jan 2020 at 05:14, Andrew Haley <aph@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > On 1/27/20 3:13 PM, Alex Scheel wrote: > > N.B.: I'd like to thank the Red Hat JVM team for being solid in > > their Fedora execution. But they maintain only the JVM, and not > > the rest of the Java ecosystem. :-) > > Thank you. > > One (perhaps) rather minor point in the middle of this important > discussion: there is no "Red Hat JVM team." We're responsible for the > entire base Java (SE) platform, that is to say the VM and the > surrounding Java libraries. > > Also, we're not just responsible for RHEL and Fedora: our team and our > partners in a few other organizations are responsible for all OpenJDK > updates for 7, 8, and 11, everywhere, not just GNU and Linux. Which is > to say, apart from Oracle's proprietary customers, most of the Java in > the world. > The issue is that people (developers, users, maintainers) lump the entire ecosystem together.. so yes you maintain that but why don't you also maintain all the java packages which sit on that platform so it is 'useful' to them. [Yes the question is one of scope, time and resources.. but to a lot of people it needs clear explanations in the same way that people will take their Ford to a Toyoto autoshop because 'its a car, you should be able to fix it'] -- Stephen J Smoogen. _______________________________________________ devel mailing list -- devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to devel-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
