On 09/24/2018 08:52 PM, Miro Hrončok wrote: > On 24.9.2018 19:09, Mikolaj Izdebski wrote: >> I'm in the process of transitioning maintenance of all software to >> modules only. The reason is that module maintenance is much easier >> compared to maintenance of non-modular, "ursine" packages. >> >> Ideally these packages should be retired instead of orphaning them, but >> these packages are build-required by a lot of other things. > This is an interesting situation. If more maintainers will decide to do > this, we can easily break everything and only have modules, except we > will no longer have any system to have those modules run on. > > (I'm not saying you shouldn't do this; I'm just really concerned if > modularity is actually helping Fedora as a whole or if it will > eventually break it entirely.)
I was hoping for a solution like "ursa-major" described in [1], that would allow modules to be used as build-dependencies for non-modular packages. This would allow properly retiring non-modular packages and maintaining only modules, which would be also used as build dependencies for non-modular packages. But it seems that currently no one is interested in implementing such solution. Java SIG is dying slowly, this package set recently lost another co-maintainer and I don't have time to maintain all these packages by myself. Switching to module-only content is probably the best move to keep high-quality software delivered to our users and reduce maintenance work at the same time. [1] https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/infrastruct...@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/JZMPGE2VMBHDO4D6SC4YTRSYNQYZOT63/ -- Mikolaj Izdebski Senior Software Engineer, Red Hat IRC: mizdebsk _______________________________________________ devel mailing list -- devel@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to devel-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Code of Conduct: https://getfedora.org/code-of-conduct.html List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/devel@lists.fedoraproject.org
