On Thu, Feb 28, 2019 at 5:03 PM Alexander Bokovoy <abokovoy(a)redhat.com> wrote:
On to, 28 helmi 2019, Stephen John Smoogen wrote:
>On Thu, 28 Feb 2019 at 06:11, Ingo Hoffmann <ingo(a)hoffmann.cx> wrote:
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> First time here and concerned Java citizen. Who or how can I contact regarding
the maven package maintenance? I want to either maintain or co-maintain it if there's
someone already doing it.
>>
>
>Note there are 2 different maven's. There is maven in a RPM module set
>which isn't going away. And then there is a non-modular maven set. You
>might find that the things you need are in the module set. I would
>also work with the rest of the java packaging team to see what they
>are doing and why they are doing it.
>
>One of the side effects of modules is that people need to work more
>together on packages to see if their needs can be better organized and
>grouped together.
Unfortunately, this forces other packages to go to modules. For example,
FreeIPA in Fedora doesn't like to be in a module but this change
(removal of maven, ant, etc) forces our dependency to disappear and the
only way for us is to be in a module. This doesn't sound good at all.
Said differently, the above mass-orphaning is equivalent to a
unannounced change (
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Releases/30/ChangeSet ).
Note that I do not blame the original maintainer's for orphaning: I'm
just stating that if modules are not accepted in buildroots the impact
is worse than any unannounced, self-contained change. This is the
shortcoming that should be addressed.
François
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