Re: pdfbox and batik (was: Re: [fedora-java] What's the State of the Java SIG?)

2019-11-25 Thread Aleksandar Kurtakov
On Mon, Nov 25, 2019 at 12:31 PM Kevin Kofler wrote: > As an example of the sorry state of the Java SIG, pdfbox and batik were > orphaned 2 weeks ago, but those are dependencies of fop, which is a > dependency of publican, which is used by appstream to build documentation, > and half of the

pdfbox and batik (was: Re: [fedora-java] What's the State of the Java SIG?)

2019-11-25 Thread Kevin Kofler
As an example of the sorry state of the Java SIG, pdfbox and batik were orphaned 2 weeks ago, but those are dependencies of fop, which is a dependency of publican, which is used by appstream to build documentation, and half of the distribution (including the entire KF5 stack, through extra-

Re: What's the State of the Java SIG?

2019-11-20 Thread Stephen John Smoogen
On Wed, 20 Nov 2019 at 10:25, Kevin Kofler wrote: > > Stephen John Smoogen wrote: > > Your comments on what you expect OTHER people to do for YOU come across as > > we are all your slaves or serfs. I really expect that isn't your > > intention, but this mode of communication undermines

Re: What's the State of the Java SIG?

2019-11-20 Thread Kevin Kofler
Stephen John Smoogen wrote: > On Tue, 19 Nov 2019 at 22:07, Kevin Kofler wrote: >> Buildroot-only modules? Stuff Java packagers shouldn't use? Why should we >> let one individual packager hold the entire Java ecosystem on Fedora >> hostage with such antisocial diktats? > > Because the

Re: What's the State of the Java SIG?

2019-11-20 Thread Stephen John Smoogen
On Tue, 19 Nov 2019 at 22:07, Kevin Kofler wrote: > > Aleksandra Fedorova wrote: > > I see that Mikolaj has a vision how it supposed to work. And I think he > > spent quite some time designing the workflow which would fit this vision, > > thus it is worth to listen to it with an open mind. > > >

Re: What's the State of the Java SIG?

2019-11-19 Thread Kevin Kofler
Aleksandra Fedorova wrote: > I see that Mikolaj has a vision how it supposed to work. And I think he > spent quite some time designing the workflow which would fit this vision, > thus it is worth to listen to it with an open mind. > > @Mikolaj, can you document the setup for java toolchain

Re: What's the State of the Java SIG?

2019-11-19 Thread Mat Booth
On Mon, 18 Nov 2019 at 11:17, John M. Harris Jr wrote: > I must disagree. That it "works" in RHEL doesn't mean that it should be done > in Fedora. The current situation in Fedora, where maven and ant have been > "moved" to modules has screwed over the Eclipse packagers, for example, and > more

Re: What's the State of the Java SIG?

2019-11-19 Thread Fabio Valentini
On Tue, Nov 19, 2019 at 5:12 PM Aleksandra Fedorova wrote: > > Hi, Fabio, > > On Mon, Nov 18, 2019 at 10:30 AM Fabio Valentini wrote: >> >> Hi everybody, >> >> You're probably aware that the Stewardship SIG has been picking up >> some (±230) Java packages to keep them from getting removed from

Re: What's the State of the Java SIG?

2019-11-19 Thread Aleksandra Fedorova
Hi, Fabio, On Mon, Nov 18, 2019 at 10:30 AM Fabio Valentini wrote: > Hi everybody, > > You're probably aware that the Stewardship SIG has been picking up > some (±230) Java packages to keep them from getting removed from > fedora, and to try to keep them maintained. Since the fraction of >

Re: [fedora-java] What's the State of the Java SIG?

2019-11-19 Thread Aleksandar Kurtakov
On Tue, Nov 19, 2019 at 4:54 PM Stephen John Smoogen wrote: > On Tue, 19 Nov 2019 at 09:17, Gerald Henriksen wrote: > > > > On Mon, 18 Nov 2019 21:08:02 -0800, you wrote: > > > > >On 11/18/19 7:29 PM, Neal Gompa wrote: > > >> I can't speak for everyone, but at least my experience was that it

Re: [fedora-java] What's the State of the Java SIG?

2019-11-19 Thread Stephen John Smoogen
On Tue, 19 Nov 2019 at 09:17, Gerald Henriksen wrote: > > On Mon, 18 Nov 2019 21:08:02 -0800, you wrote: > > >On 11/18/19 7:29 PM, Neal Gompa wrote: > >> I can't speak for everyone, but at least my experience was that it was > >> functionally impossible to discover how to package Java stuff. In a

Re: [fedora-java] What's the State of the Java SIG?

2019-11-19 Thread Gerald Henriksen
On Mon, 18 Nov 2019 21:08:02 -0800, you wrote: >On 11/18/19 7:29 PM, Neal Gompa wrote: >> I can't speak for everyone, but at least my experience was that it was >> functionally impossible to discover how to package Java stuff. In a >> lifetime (and a job) ago, I was much more engaged in the Java

Re: [fedora-java] What's the State of the Java SIG?

2019-11-18 Thread Samuel Sieb
On 11/18/19 7:29 PM, Neal Gompa wrote: On Mon, Nov 18, 2019 at 9:34 PM Samuel Sieb wrote: On 11/18/19 3:40 PM, Gerald Henriksen wrote: On Mon, 18 Nov 2019 13:37:39 +0100, you wrote: Fabio Valentini wrote: Or is it time for a "tabula rasa" and restart the SIG? IMHO, yes. Kick out the 1

Re: [fedora-java] What's the State of the Java SIG?

2019-11-18 Thread Neal Gompa
On Mon, Nov 18, 2019 at 9:34 PM Samuel Sieb wrote: > > On 11/18/19 3:40 PM, Gerald Henriksen wrote: > > On Mon, 18 Nov 2019 13:37:39 +0100, you wrote: > > > >> Fabio Valentini wrote: > >>> Or is it time for a "tabula rasa" and restart the SIG? > >> > >> IMHO, yes. Kick out the 1 or 2 Modularity

Re: [fedora-java] What's the State of the Java SIG?

2019-11-18 Thread Samuel Sieb
On 11/18/19 3:40 PM, Gerald Henriksen wrote: On Mon, 18 Nov 2019 13:37:39 +0100, you wrote: Fabio Valentini wrote: Or is it time for a "tabula rasa" and restart the SIG? IMHO, yes. Kick out the 1 or 2 Modularity fundamentalists that form the current remains of the Java SIG and create a new

Re: [fedora-java] What's the State of the Java SIG?

2019-11-18 Thread Sérgio Basto
On Mon, 2019-11-18 at 18:40 -0500, Gerald Henriksen wrote: > On Mon, 18 Nov 2019 13:37:39 +0100, you wrote: > > > Fabio Valentini wrote: > > > Or is it time for a "tabula rasa" and restart the SIG? > > > > IMHO, yes. Kick out the 1 or 2 Modularity fundamentalists that form > > the > > current

Re: [fedora-java] What's the State of the Java SIG?

2019-11-18 Thread Alex Scheel
- Original Message - > From: "Gerald Henriksen" > To: "Development discussions related to Fedora" > > Sent: Monday, November 18, 2019 6:40:54 PM > Subject: Re: [fedora-java] What's the State of the Java SIG? > > On Mon, 18 Nov 2019 13:37:39 +010

Re: [fedora-java] What's the State of the Java SIG?

2019-11-18 Thread Gerald Henriksen
On Mon, 18 Nov 2019 13:37:39 +0100, you wrote: >Fabio Valentini wrote: >> Or is it time for a "tabula rasa" and restart the SIG? > >IMHO, yes. Kick out the 1 or 2 Modularity fundamentalists that form the >current remains of the Java SIG and create a new Java SIG from scratch that >actually

Re: [fedora-java] Re: What's the State of the Java SIG?

2019-11-18 Thread Kevin Kofler
Alex Scheel wrote: > A number of these packages exist as ursine packages precisely because > you've made them BUILDROOT-only! We, the Dogtag team, asked you to > reconsider that choice because we needed these as runtime dependencies, > not build-time only. You declined and said our choices were to

Re: [fedora-java] What's the State of the Java SIG?

2019-11-18 Thread Sérgio Basto
On Mon, 2019-11-18 at 13:37 +0100, Kevin Kofler wrote: > Fabio Valentini wrote: > > Or is it time for a "tabula rasa" and restart the SIG? > > IMHO, yes. Kick out the 1 or 2 Modularity fundamentalists that form > the > current remains of the Java SIG and create a new Java SIG from > scratch that

Re: What's the State of the Java SIG?

2019-11-18 Thread Alex Scheel
- Original Message - > From: "Mikolaj Izdebski" > To: "Development discussions related to Fedora" > > Cc: "java-devel" > Sent: Monday, November 18, 2019 5:42:20 AM > Subject: Re: What's the State of the Java SIG? ~snip~ > Mainte

Re: What's the State of the Java SIG?

2019-11-18 Thread Fabio Valentini
On Mon, Nov 18, 2019 at 1:33 PM Mikolaj Izdebski wrote: > > On Mon, Nov 18, 2019 at 12:17 PM John M. Harris Jr > wrote: > > > > On Monday, November 18, 2019 3:42:20 AM MST Mikolaj Izdebski wrote: > > > IMHO effort spent on maintenance of most of these ursine Java packages > > > is mostly wasted

Re: [fedora-java] What's the State of the Java SIG?

2019-11-18 Thread Kevin Kofler
Fabio Valentini wrote: > Or is it time for a "tabula rasa" and restart the SIG? IMHO, yes. Kick out the 1 or 2 Modularity fundamentalists that form the current remains of the Java SIG and create a new Java SIG from scratch that actually cares about packaging Java properly in and for

Re: What's the State of the Java SIG?

2019-11-18 Thread Mikolaj Izdebski
On Mon, Nov 18, 2019 at 12:17 PM John M. Harris Jr wrote: > > On Monday, November 18, 2019 3:42:20 AM MST Mikolaj Izdebski wrote: > > IMHO effort spent on maintenance of most of these ursine Java packages > > is mostly wasted effort. As I said before, many times, these packages > > should be

Re: What's the State of the Java SIG?

2019-11-18 Thread John M. Harris Jr
On Monday, November 18, 2019 3:42:20 AM MST Mikolaj Izdebski wrote: > IMHO effort spent on maintenance of most of these ursine Java packages > is mostly wasted effort. As I said before, many times, these packages > should be retired and replaced by modular packages, which are > maintained by Java

Re: What's the State of the Java SIG?

2019-11-18 Thread Mikolaj Izdebski
Hi, On Mon, Nov 18, 2019 at 10:30 AM Fabio Valentini wrote: > You're probably aware that the Stewardship SIG has been picking up > some (±230) Java packages to keep them from getting removed from > fedora, and to try to keep them maintained. Since the fraction of > out-of-date packages has

What's the State of the Java SIG?

2019-11-18 Thread Fabio Valentini
Hi everybody, You're probably aware that the Stewardship SIG has been picking up some (±230) Java packages to keep them from getting removed from fedora, and to try to keep them maintained. Since the fraction of out-of-date packages has fallen from 70% to 30% (with 0 FTBFS issues left), I think