Starting Java SIG

[Mat Booth]

On 30 August 2010 15:17, Stanislav Ochotnicky <sochotnicky at redhat.com> wrote:
> Hi everyone,
>
> There has been an effort few years back to start Java SIG but it didn't
> work out in the end (no idea why). I decided it's time to try again :-)
>
> I would like to start Java SIG for a lot of reasons. Some of them:
>
>  * Packaging guidelines are in need of an update (badly)
>  * Consistency in java packages is somewhat lacking
>  * More eyes see more approach, I'd like for all java related commits to
>   go through an alias so we can all watch out for changes that can
>   break our stuff
>  * Have a place where we can collect tips & tricks, solutions to common
>   problems etc. Currently this information is scattered through
>   people's wiki pages
>  * Java needs collaboration more than most other areas, because problems
>   cannot be safely discovered automatically when someone changes
>   dependency. This can cause serious headaches (to me at least). Java
>   SIG to the rescue! :-)
>  * Other languages have their own SIGs and we don't! :-)
>
> Who am I?
> Owner/Co-maintainer of a bunch of Java packages (mostly maven plugins,
> apache-commons, junit, velocity, checkstyle, plexus
> libraries). Involved in recent update of maven to v2.2.1.
>
> Reply if you're interested with helping out and being able to
> see/influence where Java packaging in Fedora is going. I know there will
> be at least a few people joining in.
>
> I'll be starting Java SIG wiki page soon, plus I guess we can peruse
> java-devel mailing list for SIG discussions.
>
>
>

I would definitely join the SIG. I mostly maintain Eclipse plugins and
various low level Java libraries.

https://admin.fedoraproject.org/pkgdb/users/packages/mbooth?acls=owner&acls=approveacls&acls=commit

I personally would like to see automatic OSGi dep-solving in RPM get
off the ground :-)

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=488352

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Mat Booth
http://fedoraproject.org/get-fedora