On Tue, Sep 10, 2019 at 11:23 AM Dridi Boukelmoune
<dridi.boukelmoune(a)gmail.com> wrote:
On Sun, Sep 8, 2019 at 6:51 PM Fabio Valentini <decathorpe(a)gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hello packagers,
>
> The Stewardship SIG is currently providing only bare-minimum
> maintenance for some Java packages, and none of our packages depend on
> them anymore.
> So, we're looking for someone to take better care of them, preferably
> someone who actively uses these packages or maintains a package that
> depends on them.
>
> The packages are:
>
> - java-base64
> - jboss-jstl-1.2-api
> - jetty-version-maven-plugin
> - stringtemplate4
> - tagsoup
>
> Directly dependent packages of java-base64:
> - Java-WebSocket
> - elasticsearch
> - gherkin2-java
> - java-vash
> - java-xmlbuilder
> - jets3t
> - rescu
> - smack
> - sshj
Doesn't Java have a Base64 class in its standard library since Java 8?
Apologies if I remember wrong since I'm not doing any Java anymore and
haven't for years now, but the java-base64 could go away if dependent
upstreams used the built-in codec. My understanding is that it would
be the package maintainers' responsibility to bring this up, potentially
with patches, but it is also my understanding that we are dearly missing
maintainers in this area...
My 2 cents
You're right, java8 does provide base64 functionality in its standard library:
https://docs.oracle.com/javase/8/docs/api/java/util/Base64.html
It would be nice if dependent projects could migrate to this instead
of using a third-party library (the same is true for base64coder).
However, I don't really have the time to actually do the porting work
here, since I'm already trying to keep the ~200+ core Java packages
in fedora from falling apart in my spare time.
I also checked the list of dependent packages again, and 5 of them are
already orphans, so they will go away soon anyway.
Fabio
> > Directly dependent packages of jboss-jstl-1.2-api:
> > - jboss-jsf-2.1-api
> > - jboss-jsf-2.2-api
> >
> > Directly dependent packages of jetty-version-maven-plugin:
> > - jetty8
> >
> > Directly dependent packages of stringtemplate4:
> > - antlr3
> > - antlr4
> > - eclipselink
> > - gs-collections
> >
> > Directly dependent packages of tagsoup:
> > - icedtea-web
> > - javadocofflinesearch
> > - tika
> > - xom
> >
> >
> > If you received this email directly, you're a (co-)maintainer of one
> > of these packages, and would probably be best qualified to take care
> > of the package in question.
> >
> > If you want to take one, some, or all of them off our hands, just fill
> > out the "package_adoption_request" template here, and we will
transfer
> > the package to you.
https://www.pagure.io/stewardship-sig/new_issue
> >
> > If nobody claims the packages within the next two weeks, we will
> > orphan them again, setting them on their course towards retirement in
> > about two months.
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Fabio (decathorpe), for the Stewardship SIG
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