On 08/27/2014 04:59 PM, Potter, Tim (Cloud Services) wrote: > On 28/08/14 8:24 AM, "tony mancill" <tmancill@debian.org> wrote: > >> Hi Java Team: >> >> The following is my recollection and impressions (before they fade away >> completely) from both the Java Team BoF that took place on at DC14 on >> August 25th and subsequent informal discussions. It is not meant to be >> a comprehensive set of notes (and thus may biased towards what I recall >>from the session). I am posting them here to initiate conversation and >> welcome comments and corrections of any omissions of topic, attribution >> or other misrepresentations. First off, thank you to Matthew Vernon for >> scheduling and conducting the BoF. We started with this list of topics: >> >> * Maven / dependency hell / build system >> * Java 8 transition >> * Tomcat >> * Getting more contributors >> * Old/crufty packages > > Thanks for taking these notes and forwarding them to the list. It's > fantastic for those who can't travel to the meeting. > > As a newcomer to the list the unpackaged leaf library problem is the one > that's preventing me from getting useful stuff done. Some of my "leaves" > have two levels of other dependencies as well. )-: > > Was there any mention of Maven 3 in the discussion? It seems that these > days a lot of libraries require Maven 3 and mh_make doesn't work when > attempting to package these libraries. Hi Tim, Impressive that you're half-way around the world and still can remind me of topics there were, in fact, discussed... :) I do recall a question regarding Maven 3 support in the Debian packaging tools, but neither Matthew nor I was in a position to speak authoritatively on that topic. So we could certainly use help regarding Maven 3 tools. I propose we start collecting challenges/ideas on a Maven3 wiki page to help us decompose the problem into smaller chunks. The resulting page can then be linked from [0]. Cheers, tony [0] https://wiki.debian.org/Java/
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