Re: Java Dev Group and Fedora Quality

2020-01-30 Thread Andrew Haley
On 1/29/20 3:15 PM, Alex Scheel wrote: > I lump the Java SE platform into "roughly" what I was calling the JVM > team. You're roughly the group that does what'd be the "core" work in > other languages: maintains the compilers and the stdlib. My terminology > there was incorrect; I suppose "JRE"

Re: Java Dev Group and Fedora Quality

2020-01-29 Thread Alex Scheel
- Original Message - > From: "Stephen John Smoogen" > To: "Development discussions related to Fedora" > > Sent: Wednesday, January 29, 2020 8:47:46 AM > Subject: Re: Java Dev Group and Fedora Quality > > On Wed, 29 Jan 2020 at 05:14, Andrew

Re: Java Dev Group and Fedora Quality

2020-01-29 Thread Stephen John Smoogen
On Wed, 29 Jan 2020 at 05:14, Andrew Haley wrote: > > On 1/27/20 3:13 PM, Alex Scheel wrote: > > N.B.: I'd like to thank the Red Hat JVM team for being solid in > > their Fedora execution. But they maintain only the JVM, and not > > the rest of the Java ecosystem. :-) > > Thank you. > > One

Re: Java Dev Group and Fedora Quality

2020-01-29 Thread Bill Chatfield via devel
That's one of the big reasons I like Red Hat. You guys rock!  :-) On Wednesday, January 29, 2020, 5:14:18 AM EST, Andrew Haley wrote: On 1/27/20 3:13 PM, Alex Scheel wrote: > N.B.: I'd like to thank the Red Hat JVM team for being solid in > their Fedora execution. But they maintain

Re: Java Dev Group and Fedora Quality

2020-01-29 Thread Andrew Haley
On 1/27/20 3:13 PM, Alex Scheel wrote: > N.B.: I'd like to thank the Red Hat JVM team for being solid in > their Fedora execution. But they maintain only the JVM, and not > the rest of the Java ecosystem. :-) Thank you. One (perhaps) rather minor point in the middle of this important discussion:

Re: Java Dev Group and Fedora Quality

2020-01-28 Thread Mikolaj Izdebski
On Tue, Jan 28, 2020 at 12:18 AM Neal Gompa wrote: > Honestly, the correct thing is to make it so the maven to RPM > interface is as transparent as possible. We've done a reasonably good > job with this in Rust, Ruby, and Python, and the situation is (slowly) > improving in Go. But nobody has sat

Re: Java Dev Group and Fedora Quality

2020-01-27 Thread Bill Chatfield via devel
That is a very helpful explanation. I do have a lot of repos configured but most are necessary. Some are now added by gnome-software. _copr_phracek-PyCharm.repo   fedora-updates.repo  rpmfusion-nonfree-nvidia-driver.repo dropbox.repo

Re: Java Dev Group and Fedora Quality

2020-01-27 Thread Neal Gompa
On Mon, Jan 27, 2020 at 1:44 PM Mario Torre wrote: > > On Mon, Jan 27, 2020 at 7:11 PM Robbie Harwood wrote: > > > Java packaging being extremely difficult is not a Fedora-specific > > problem. The modularity effects are, but the packaging has been > > known-hard for a very long time in many

Re: Java Dev Group and Fedora Quality

2020-01-27 Thread Przemek Klosowski via devel
On 1/26/20 5:33 PM, Bill Chatfield via devel wrote: When I type "sudo dnf install something" it takes about 10 minutes to pull updates from every repository, every time I run dnf. The actual install or update proceeds at a reasonable pace. I wouldn't call it fast. I could send you a video of

Re: Java Dev Group and Fedora Quality

2020-01-27 Thread Fabio Valentini
On Mon, Jan 27, 2020 at 6:01 PM Mario Torre wrote: > > On Mon, Jan 27, 2020 at 5:28 PM Robbie Harwood wrote: > > > > You would not expect a GCC devroom to be concerned about the problems > > > of all packages written in C and C++, so why would Java be any > > > different? > > > > Honestly? I

Re: Java Dev Group and Fedora Quality

2020-01-27 Thread Emmanuel Seyman
* Bill Chatfield via devel [26/01/2020 22:33] : > > I don't know if the problem is dnf or a library, but it is a serious problem. There are several issues here: - Different servers will transmit repository metadata at different speeds and you need to factor these out when trying to find

Re: Java Dev Group and Fedora Quality

2020-01-27 Thread Mario Torre
On Mon, Jan 27, 2020 at 7:11 PM Robbie Harwood wrote: > Java packaging being extremely difficult is not a Fedora-specific > problem. The modularity effects are, but the packaging has been > known-hard for a very long time in many distros (and even outside a > distro context, it's not fun to

Re: Java Dev Group and Fedora Quality

2020-01-27 Thread Robbie Harwood
tMario Torre writes: > On Mon, Jan 27, 2020 at 5:28 PM Robbie Harwood wrote: > >>> You would not expect a GCC devroom to be concerned about the >>> problems of all packages written in C and C++, so why would Java be >>> any different? >> >> Honestly? I totally would expect that. Wouldn't that

Re: Java Dev Group and Fedora Quality

2020-01-27 Thread Mario Torre
On Mon, Jan 27, 2020 at 5:28 PM Robbie Harwood wrote: > > You would not expect a GCC devroom to be concerned about the problems > > of all packages written in C and C++, so why would Java be any > > different? > > Honestly? I totally would expect that. Wouldn't that be better for > everyone? >

Re: Java Dev Group and Fedora Quality

2020-01-27 Thread Robbie Harwood
Andrew Haley writes: > On 1/26/20 11:52 AM, Nicolas Mailhot wrote: >> Le dimanche 26 janvier 2020 à 10:10 +, Andrew Haley a écrit : >>> On 1/26/20 8:43 AM, Nicolas Mailhot via devel wrote: >>> Java has been in a terminal course in Fedora for a year at least. You can see how much

Re: Java Dev Group and Fedora Quality

2020-01-27 Thread Nicolas Mailhot via devel
Le 2020-01-27 15:46, Mario Torre a écrit : You keep ignoring that a large part of the packaged ecosystem comes from different places and is maintained by different people, That’s why coordination conferences like the FOSDEM exist. and not everything is in a state of chaos as you imply

Re: Java Dev Group and Fedora Quality

2020-01-27 Thread Alex Scheel
- Original Message - > From: "Tom Seewald" > To: devel@lists.fedoraproject.org > Sent: Sunday, January 26, 2020 12:35:32 PM > Subject: Re: Java Dev Group and Fedora Quality > > > On Sat, Jan 25, 2020 at 11:07 PM Bill Chatfield via devel > *snip* > >

Re: Java Dev Group and Fedora Quality

2020-01-27 Thread Mario Torre
On Mon, Jan 27, 2020 at 3:32 PM Nicolas Mailhot wrote: > When a community driven conference grows to the size and reach of FOSDEM > yes you can infer quite a lot from its schedule (one could do the same, > removing the community word, for things where community is not relevant; > that’s how half

Re: Java Dev Group and Fedora Quality

2020-01-27 Thread Nicolas Mailhot via devel
Le 2020-01-27 15:13, Mario Torre a écrit : On Sun, Jan 26, 2020 at 12:53 PM Nicolas Mailhot via devel wrote: Le dimanche 26 janvier 2020 à 10:10 +, Andrew Haley a écrit : > On 1/26/20 8:43 AM, Nicolas Mailhot via devel wrote: > > > Java has been in a terminal course in Fedora for a year

Re: Java Dev Group and Fedora Quality

2020-01-27 Thread Mario Torre
On Sun, Jan 26, 2020 at 12:53 PM Nicolas Mailhot via devel wrote: > > Le dimanche 26 janvier 2020 à 10:10 +, Andrew Haley a écrit : > > On 1/26/20 8:43 AM, Nicolas Mailhot via devel wrote: > > > > > Java has been in a terminal course in Fedora for a year at > > > least. You can see how much

Re: Java Dev Group and Fedora Quality

2020-01-27 Thread Nicolas Mailhot via devel
Le 2020-01-27 10:52, Andrew Haley a écrit : You would not expect a GCC devroom to be concerned about the problems of all packages written in C and C++, so why would Java be any different? I would expect a GCC devroom to be concerned about the problems of all packages written in C and C++ once

Re: Java Dev Group and Fedora Quality

2020-01-27 Thread Tom Hughes
On 27/01/2020 12:01, Adam Williamson wrote: I don't know in detail how apt works, but IIRC (sorry if I'm wrong), in a previous discussion of this it's been suggested that the difference is apt doesn't refresh this data unless you explicitly ask it to, while dnf does automatically refresh it on

Re: Java Dev Group and Fedora Quality

2020-01-27 Thread Adam Williamson
On Sun, 2020-01-26 at 22:33 +, Bill Chatfield via devel wrote: > > That's not really fair. DNF is pretty much only the user interface, > > and everything it's built on top of (hawkey, librepo, libsolv) is > > implemented in C / C++. And when I think back to using yum, dnf is > > really fast :)

Re: Java Dev Group and Fedora Quality

2020-01-27 Thread Andrew Haley
On 1/26/20 11:52 AM, Nicolas Mailhot wrote: > Le dimanche 26 janvier 2020 à 10:10 +, Andrew Haley a écrit : >> On 1/26/20 8:43 AM, Nicolas Mailhot via devel wrote: >> >>> Java has been in a terminal course in Fedora for a year at >>> least. You can see how much Red Hat Java leadership cares

Re: Java Dev Group and Fedora Quality

2020-01-27 Thread Vít Ondruch
Dne 26. 01. 20 v 23:33 Bill Chatfield via devel napsal(a): >> You're right. The Java SIG was not organised around an account group, >> so it does not exist. I don't know why it is that way, but that could >> easily be fixed - other language interest groups are organised this >> way, after all

Re: Java Dev Group and Fedora Quality

2020-01-26 Thread Gerald Henriksen
On Sun, 26 Jan 2020 22:33:55 -, you wrote: >> That's not really fair. DNF is pretty much only the user interface, >> and everything it's built on top of (hawkey, librepo, libsolv) is >> implemented in C / C++. And when I think back to using yum, dnf is >> really fast :) >> I don't know which

Re: Java Dev Group and Fedora Quality

2020-01-26 Thread Bill Chatfield via devel
> You're right. The Java SIG was not organised around an account group, > so it does not exist. I don't know why it is that way, but that could > easily be fixed - other language interest groups are organised this > way, after all (python-sig, go-sig, ruby-sig, etc.). I don't really understand

Re: Java Dev Group and Fedora Quality

2020-01-26 Thread Bill Chatfield via devel
I understand it can be done. But in the past getting something to work in wine is a guessing game. The instructions don't work. Winetricks doesn't get you to a functioning game and PlayOnLinux was for a long time non-functional in Fedora as the windows would not display properly. So getting a

Re: Java Dev Group and Fedora Quality

2020-01-26 Thread Bill Chatfield via devel
> Well, I don't know if its indicative of what they use for development, > but at Red Hat Summit last year, *all* the Java middleware demos were > on macOS. That is frustrating and I don't like it. But, I suppose it makes since if their customers are using Macs to do development work and then

Re: Java Dev Group and Fedora Quality

2020-01-26 Thread Bill Chatfield via devel
Great info. Thanks! It's always more complicated than I first imagine. :-) ___ devel mailing list -- devel@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to devel-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Code of Conduct:

Re: Java Dev Group and Fedora Quality

2020-01-26 Thread Bill Chatfield via devel
Yea, I understand what you're saying. ___ devel mailing list -- devel@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to devel-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List

Re: Java Dev Group and Fedora Quality

2020-01-26 Thread Bill Chatfield via devel
I will do that. Thanks. ___ devel mailing list -- devel@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to devel-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines:

Re: Java Dev Group and Fedora Quality

2020-01-26 Thread Bill Chatfield via devel
I hear what you're saying. But I am undeterred. :-) ___ devel mailing list -- devel@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to devel-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Code of Conduct:

Re: Java Dev Group and Fedora Quality

2020-01-26 Thread Bill Chatfield via devel
So I need to fix something that is a one-person job to get started. On Sunday, January 26, 2020, 4:04:06 PM EST, Felix Schwarz wrote: Am 26.01.20 um 01:10 schrieb Bill Chatfield via devel: > That's a very sad story. I had no idea. So it sounds like you mainly need > maintainers for

Re: Java Dev Group and Fedora Quality

2020-01-26 Thread Felix Schwarz
Am 26.01.20 um 01:10 schrieb Bill Chatfield via devel: > That's a very sad story. I had no idea. So it sounds like you mainly need > maintainers for Java packages. I have worked on building RPMs but I have > never been a package maintainer. However I have 20 years of experience as a > Java

Re: Java Dev Group and Fedora Quality

2020-01-26 Thread Neal Gompa
On Sun, Jan 26, 2020 at 12:36 PM Tom Seewald wrote: > > > On Sat, Jan 25, 2020 at 11:07 PM Bill Chatfield via devel > *snip* > > True. Nobody cares about Java packages in fedora, not even Red Hat > > employees. If you look at the members of the Java SIG, a lot of them > > were (or still are) Red

Re: Java Dev Group and Fedora Quality

2020-01-26 Thread Tom Seewald
> On Sat, Jan 25, 2020 at 11:07 PM Bill Chatfield via devel *snip* > True. Nobody cares about Java packages in fedora, not even Red Hat > employees. If you look at the members of the Java SIG, a lot of them > were (or still are) Red Hat employees. For example, even JBoss / > WildFly (a pretty big

Re: Java Dev Group and Fedora Quality

2020-01-26 Thread Nico Kadel-Garcia
On Sat, Jan 25, 2020 at 5:07 PM Bill Chatfield via devel wrote: > > I'm trying to find out what's going on with Java in Fedora. Fedora 31 was > released with a broken Eclipse. I subscribe to the java-devel mailing list > but there is no traffic there. If I go to "Join a Group" and click on "J"

Re: Java Dev Group and Fedora Quality

2020-01-26 Thread Jaroslav Prokop
Hi Bill, On 25/01/2020 23:06, Bill Chatfield via devel wrote: In another case I tried to set up a Fedora system to run games, as that is what kids want to do. That was an utter failure because Fedora can't run any game that kids want to run today. The ability to run games cannot be

Re: Java Dev Group and Fedora Quality

2020-01-26 Thread Jan Vlug
Unfortunately, I also experience several issues with using Eclipse in Fedora. Actually the standard Eclipse package is not working well, and I am confused by the regular package and modular package mixture. See also what I wrote at:

Re: Java Dev Group and Fedora Quality

2020-01-26 Thread Fabio Valentini
On Sat, Jan 25, 2020 at 11:07 PM Bill Chatfield via devel wrote: Hi again, I have a bit more time today, so I can respond to your more of your arguments directly. > I'm trying to find out what's going on with Java in Fedora. Fedora 31 was > released with a broken Eclipse. I subscribe to the

Re: Java Dev Group and Fedora Quality

2020-01-26 Thread Nicolas Mailhot via devel
Le dimanche 26 janvier 2020 à 10:10 +, Andrew Haley a écrit : > On 1/26/20 8:43 AM, Nicolas Mailhot via devel wrote: > > > Java has been in a terminal course in Fedora for a year at > > least. You can see how much Red Hat Java leadership cares about the > > situation by consulting next week’s

Re: Java Dev Group and Fedora Quality

2020-01-26 Thread Andrew Haley
On 1/26/20 8:43 AM, Nicolas Mailhot via devel wrote: > Java has been in a terminal course in Fedora for a year at > least. You can see how much Red Hat Java leadership cares about the > situation by consulting next week’s Java dev room schedule. Red Hat > is co- organisator of this dev room >

Re: Java Dev Group and Fedora Quality

2020-01-26 Thread Nicolas Mailhot via devel
Le dimanche 26 janvier 2020 à 05:25 +, Bill Chatfield via devel a écrit : > And if the Gnome guys actually had information like this, they'd be > forced to deal with it. Forcing people does not work that well in real life, and even less in free software circles where participation is

Re: Java Dev Group and Fedora Quality

2020-01-26 Thread Adam Williamson
On Sat, 2020-01-25 at 22:06 +, Bill Chatfield via devel wrote: > You need automated tests. You need a suit of manual tests. For every package. So to chime in on the QA aspects of this: the above is not realistically possible, and it's also an explicit non-goal of all QA and CI efforts. We

Re: Java Dev Group and Fedora Quality

2020-01-26 Thread Emmanuel Seyman
* Bill Chatfield via devel [25/01/2020 23:23] : > > I'd be willing to work on that if I can figure out how to recreate the group. > Can you point me in the right direction? SIGs are rather informal and none of them have a joining procedure that I know of. That said, this was already discussed on

Re: Java Dev Group and Fedora Quality

2020-01-26 Thread Nicolas Mailhot via devel
Le dimanche 26 janvier 2020 à 00:10 +, Bill Chatfield via devel a écrit : > That's a very sad story. I had no idea. So it sounds like you mainly > need maintainers for Java packages. I have worked on building RPMs > but I have never been a package maintainer. However I have 20 years > of

Re: Java Dev Group and Fedora Quality

2020-01-25 Thread Samuel Sieb
On 1/25/20 9:25 PM, Bill Chatfield via devel wrote: I think that by applying basic engineering techniques like user testing we can weed out ideologies that don't provide any value to users. Do the testing and let the results decide.The principles of ISO 9000 can be applied to improve

Re: Java Dev Group and Fedora Quality

2020-01-25 Thread Bill Chatfield via devel
I appreciate the sensibility of your suggestion but I'm afraid that I enjoy the aggravation of my love/hate relationship with Gnome too much. You got me thinking though. ___ devel mailing list -- devel@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an

Re: Java Dev Group and Fedora Quality

2020-01-25 Thread Benson Muite
On 1/26/20 8:25 AM, Bill Chatfield via devel wrote: I think that by applying basic engineering techniques like user testing we can weed out ideologies that don't provide any value to users. Do the testing and let the results decide.The principles of ISO 9000 can be applied to improve

Re: Java Dev Group and Fedora Quality

2020-01-25 Thread Bill Chatfield via devel
I think that by applying basic engineering techniques like user testing we can weed out ideologies that don't provide any value to users. Do the testing and let the results decide.The principles of ISO 9000 can be applied to improve products. There are also metrics that can measure how good a

Re: Java Dev Group and Fedora Quality

2020-01-25 Thread Bill Chatfield via devel
No problem. I like hearing peoples' opinions. I will look for a package that might be a good starting point. ___ devel mailing list -- devel@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to devel-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Code of

Re: Java Dev Group and Fedora Quality

2020-01-25 Thread Alexander Ploumistos
Hello Bill, And sorry for digressing. On Sun, Jan 26, 2020 at 1:10 AM Bill Chatfield via devel wrote: > > That's a very sad story. I had no idea. So it sounds like you mainly need > maintainers for Java packages. I have worked on building RPMs but I have > never been a package maintainer.

Re: Java Dev Group and Fedora Quality

2020-01-25 Thread Ty Young
On 1/25/20 7:30 PM, Alexander Ploumistos wrote: Hello Ty, On Sun, Jan 26, 2020 at 1:42 AM Ty Young wrote: The unfortunate reality is that none of what you describe will likely change in any significant way, at least not with the standard Linux distros(Ubuntu, Fedora, Debian, Arch) etc. Too

Re: Java Dev Group and Fedora Quality

2020-01-25 Thread Alexander Ploumistos
Hello Ty, On Sun, Jan 26, 2020 at 1:42 AM Ty Young wrote: > > The unfortunate reality is that none of what you describe will likely > change in any significant way, at least not with the standard Linux > distros(Ubuntu, Fedora, Debian, Arch) etc. Too much of Linux is ideology > based(GNU, among

Re: Java Dev Group and Fedora Quality

2020-01-25 Thread Ty Young
On 1/25/20 7:12 PM, Neal Gompa wrote: On Sat, Jan 25, 2020 at 7:42 PM Ty Young wrote: You miss the point of how FOSS projects work. Read up on some history and get some understanding of the cultural background before you blithely say that ideology and passion are what is killing Linux

Re: Java Dev Group and Fedora Quality

2020-01-25 Thread Neal Gompa
On Sat, Jan 25, 2020 at 7:42 PM Ty Young wrote: > > > Hi Bill, > > > Not an average Fedora user but I've used several Linux > distributions(including Fedora and versions there of) over the years. > What you are bringing up is 100% valid and isn't new or specific to > Fedora. It's been a known and

Re: Java Dev Group and Fedora Quality

2020-01-25 Thread Ty Young
Hi Bill, Not an average Fedora user but I've used several Linux distributions(including Fedora and versions there of) over the years. What you are bringing up is 100% valid and isn't new or specific to Fedora. It's been a known and valid complaint that there isn't enough software in distro

Re: Java Dev Group and Fedora Quality

2020-01-25 Thread Bill Chatfield via devel
That's a very sad story. I had no idea. So it sounds like you mainly need maintainers for Java packages. I have worked on building RPMs but I have never been a package maintainer. However I have 20 years of experience as a Java developer, so I'm pretty confident I can be helpful. How should I

Re: Java Dev Group and Fedora Quality

2020-01-25 Thread Fabio Valentini
On Sun, Jan 26, 2020 at 12:24 AM Bill Chatfield via devel wrote: > > > As has been discussed time and time again on this mailing list, the last > > member of the Java SIG left it at the end of 2018, leaving the group emptIy. > I'd be willing to work on that if I can figure out how to recreate

Re: Java Dev Group and Fedora Quality

2020-01-25 Thread Bill Chatfield via devel
> As has been discussed time and time again on this mailing list, the last > member of the Java SIG left it at the end of 2018, leaving the group emptIy. I'd be willing to work on that if I can figure out how to recreate the group. Can you point me in the right direction? > There are several

Re: Java Dev Group and Fedora Quality

2020-01-25 Thread Emmanuel Seyman
* Bill Chatfield via devel [25/01/2020 22:06] : > > I'm trying to find out what's going on with Java in Fedora. Fedora 31 was > released with a broken Eclipse. I subscribe to the java-devel mailing list > but there is no traffic there. As has been discussed time and time again on this mailing

Java Dev Group and Fedora Quality

2020-01-25 Thread Bill Chatfield via devel
I'm trying to find out what's going on with Java in Fedora. Fedora 31 was released with a broken Eclipse. I subscribe to the java-devel mailing list but there is no traffic there. If I go to "Join a Group" and click on "J" there is simply nothing there...