Re: Fedora 💔 Java: The Death of Two SIGs
On Mon, Sep 27, 2021 at 12:19 PM Peter Boy <pboy(a)uni-bremen.de> wrote:
> Am 27.09.2021 um 11:13 schrieb Pierre-Yves Chibon <pingou(a)pingoured.fr>:
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> On Mon, Sep 27, 2021 at 10:57:12AM +0200, Peter Boy wrote:
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>> What do you want to gain from it? What is the goal to be?
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> I believe the original email from Fabio answers both of these questions.
I don’t find a plan or a goal. Please, provide me with a hint.
All I wanted to say is that the current state is disingenuous at best,
and misleading at first.
By having @java-maint-sig as one of the admins of a package (and for
most of them, also the default bugzilla assignee), while that group
doesn't really function any longer, a false expectation of "there's a
whole group of people maintaining this package", while the reality is
closer to "zero or maybe one person might be looking at this package
once a year".
I'd rather have the group start from zero now, and start *adding*
packages again that are actually really needed, wanted, and
maintained.
This should also be a less daunting prospect for potential packagers
who are now just lurking on the sidelines, because they can't commit
to helping maintain 100+ packages (I actually know that there's a few
of those - thank you for contacting me off-list. you know who you are
:) )
Fabio