Hi Andrew,

about jclouds-karaf, can you please leave as is ? I'm working on it, and
I should have the PR ready soon.

Regards
JB

On 08/04/2019 07:12, Andrew Gaul wrote:
> jclouds has stalled on upgrading our Guava dependency[1] due to our
> Karaf dependency.  Our team lacks the background and volunteers lack the
> time to resolve this despite over a year of discussion.  I propose
> removing jclouds-karaf and jclouds-cli from the build and posting
> notices in the README and user mailing lists.  When a volunteer can
> resolve this we can reintegrate this support.
> 
> Some background on why this is important: our Guava dependency has
> repeated annoyed users it used to have an aggressive deprecation policy
> and jclouds depended on @Beta APIs.  Newer versions of Guava depend on
> Java 8 but our Karaf version seems to have an incompatibility.  Attempts
> to upgrade it have failed.
> 
> As a matter of strategy, I think jclouds should narrow its focus since
> many of the more active developers, including me, now split our time
> with other projects.  We should consider removing some of the labs
> providers and other incomplete efforts to reduce the maintenance burden.
> As a concrete suggestion, I would like to remove the jdbc labs provider.
> 
> [1] https://issues.apache.org/jira/projects/JCLOUDS/issues/JCLOUDS-1333
> 

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