On Tue, May 19, 2020 at 11:19 AM Ankur Sinha <sanjay.an...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On Tue, May 19, 2020 10:44:05 +0200, Fabio Valentini wrote:
> > <snip>
> >
> > Good Morning!
> >
> > We were planning to discuss this from the Stewardship SIG point of
> > view during today's meeting, and I didn't want to announce any plans
> > before that.
> >
> > However, my suggestion would be to do the following things:
> >
> > 1. determine a core set of packages that's required for a functional
> > java → RPM toolchain
> >
> > This will include ant, maven, some core maven plugins,
> > javapackages-tools, xmvn, and all the dependencies of those packages.
> >
> > 2. start moving those packages into the @java-maint-sig
> >
> > I'd like to do some basic sanity checks when doing that, for example
> > checking upstream release history, unnecessary dependencies,
> > possiblitiies to drop unused functionality, etc. Most packages that
> > are required for building RPMs from Java projects (maven, maven
> > plugins, plexus-foo, apache-commons-bar, etc.) should already be in
> > pretty good shape and mostly up-to-date.
> >
> > 3. once that basic set of packages has been moved to the SIG, we can
> > start looking at which things share Java packages as dependencies
> > (e.g. glassfish-jaxb is required by both the DogTag PKI team and the
> > Neuro SIG), and move those to the Java SIG as well, if all parties
> > want to do that.
> >
> > ---
> >
> > I'll try coming up with a roadmap for which packages to move first.
> > I'd like to do this right, so it won't be fast, but I hope we can
> > improve the Java stack in the process.
>
> Thanks, that sounds great. I look forward to the plan. You're right:
> there's no need to hurry. Much better to do it right :)
>
> Unfortunately, I have a work meeting that clashes with the stewardship
> SIG meeting, so I won't make it there today. If the work meeting
> finishes early, I will pop by to check if the stewardship meeting is
> still on.

That would be great. We'll talk about that topic last, then :)

Fabio

> --
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> Regards,
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