On Tue, May 12, 2020 at 9:33 AM Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek <zbyszek@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > The wiki is not that bad actually. The links to guidelines and package > lists are still useful. Even the packaging wishlist is mostly up to > date since we didn't manage to touch most of the items ;) > So maybe just nuke the outdated parts (member lists, "state of affairs" > content), and keep the rest? Fair point. I'll make sure we keep the parts that are still up-to-date and/or interesting. > > Major upcoming projects for the "new" Java Package Maintainers group include: > > > > - managing OpenJDK 11 / Java 11 transition for hundreds of Java > > packages in fedora 33 > > - starting to transition well-maintained Java packages from the > > Stewardship SIG back into Java SIG > > - possibly porting packages from gradle to maven to fix build issues > > and broken dependencies > > What about packaging gradle instead? (In the cases I looked into, > porting from gradle to maven would be rewriting the build system from > scratch. Assuming that we have tens and will have hundreds of packages > with gradle, in the long term it seems better to support gradle, even > in some partial form, than to rewrite build systems of hundreds of > packages...). Uh. We tried. Multiple times. It just won't work, like, ever again. I wrote a longer response here: https://discussion.fedoraproject.org/t/re-launching-the-java-sig/19688/3 So, you are welcome to try, but I bet you'll end up in the long line of packagers who failed to make it work. > > - transitioning from old java.net / JavaEE projects to the new ones > > now under the eclipse-ee4j umbrella > > > > I know that - among others - the PKI team, Neuro SIG, and Eclipse > > maintainers depend on parts of the java stack for their packages, so I > > hope that we can work together with them on these things, as well. > > > > So, if you're interested, please consider joining this group effort. > > I'll get new members set up with the FAS group / pagure project / mailing list. > > Yep, count me in. Thanks. I'll get your memberships set up. :) Fabio > Zbyszek > _______________________________________________ > 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 _______________________________________________ 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
