Re: Setting goals for Wheezy
I'm sadly still mostly not working on Debian due to a huge day job push,
but the good news from the Debian Java perspective is that the huge push
is in absorbing a bunch of Java applications (both web applications and
long-running daemons) from another part of our organization. That means
that I'm getting a crash course in Java, and have now developed a couple
of Spring-based Java applications, including a webapp, and have been
deploying a whole pile of occasionally quite complex applications.
My goal for wheezy is to start turning that experience into policy,
helpers, and supporting packages for Debian. In particular, I want to
pursue DEP-7 and webapp deployment in Debian, since what we're doing
internally right now in deploying an init script to start Tomcat
separately for each application is horrible. I also want to get as many
of our upstream dependencies for our applications packaged properly for
Debian as I can. We're using Maven 2 for all our applications, and I want
to build our internal packages following Debian policy, so I want to
understand how Maven-based packaging is currently implemented and see if I
can help with enhancing it.
Separately, we run a federated identity system called Shibboleth, and the
identity provider component is a large Tomcat application with lots of
dependencies. I would like to work with the Shibboleth and Java teams to
get that software packaged properly for Debian.
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Russ Allbery (rra@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>
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