> On Nov 23, 2016, at 2:22 PM, Peter Donald <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> On Sat, Nov 19, 2016 at 4:12 PM, Antoine Toulme <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> the board meeting went over well.
>>
>
> great.
>
>
>> We’re still due for a big discussion on how to sustain and attract more
>> people to the project. I started something, and well now we’re a month
>> later.
>>
>
> Yep. Sorry - I am not going to be much help until after the xmas season :(
> Small child and large family :)
No worries.
>
> 1.5.1 is still very much time bound to Christmas time. Interestingly, no
>> bugs on 1.5.0 have surfaced but one, so far.
>>
>
> Nothing popped up here in all our testing. So I think it must be fairly
> solid.
Cool.
>
>
>> I’m going to try to knock a few things off the bug list.
>>
>
> Great. The requests that I hear are often about how to make it easier to
> integrate into the wider ecosystem. In no particular order the requests are;
>
> * Easier to launch/install (which your docker work may handle)
OK. Still much to do there.
> * Integrate `buildr/custom_pom` into core and just make it the default pom
> generated.
BUILDR-729 filed.
> * Add a mechanism to more easily declare "provided" dependencies. It has
> been suggested that something like "compile.provides << :mydep" may work
> but not sure how this request interacts with `buildr/custom_pom`. Maybe
> `custom_pom` could be based of this.
Added as a comment of BUILDR-729.
> * Add a way to do a "full" release to maven central. I am not sure exactly
> what this means but I get the impression that some tools allow you to
> upload to the maven central staging repository, "close" the repository and
> "release" the repository. I currently do steps 2 and 3 manually and don't
> find it too onerous but others have suggested that they would like it
> "fixed”.
Wow, not sure about this. I’ve been doing some releases to Maven Central with
Buildr and it did look like you need to do those steps manually.
I filed BUILDR-730 for this.
>
> Anyhoo - just in case you need some new ideas ;)
>
>
>>
>> I played with making a Docker image using a minified JDK9 image to run
>> Buildr. RJB doesn’t work well with it right now.
>> https://github.com/atoulme/docker-buildr/blob/master/Dockerfile <
>> https://github.com/atoulme/docker-buildr/blob/master/Dockerfile>
>>
>
>
> Interesting. We use an alpine+jdk7 image locally. I may experiment with it
> over the weekend ;)
>
>
> --
> Cheers,
>
> Peter Donald
