On 16.06.24 23:21, Philippe Cerfon wrote:
Hey Emmanuel. On Sun, Jun 16, 2024 at 6:54 PM Emmanuel Bourg <ebourg@apache.org> wrote:The lack of manpower is still an issue. I'm still able to update the core Eclipse libraries once or twice a year, but the full IDE would require at least a full time maintainer I think.I see. What a pity that none of the big companies using Debian and doing development (and thus may benefit from Eclipse, too) or e.g. Canonical seems to have an interest in this and being able to sponsor the needed manpower.
I fail to see the connection between using Debian and using Eclipse.Go start packaging yourself, or at least write what would be needed. In the past, upstream didn't care much about getting packaging issues addressed upstream, and packaging is very time consuming.
I'm not sure if RedHat is still doing that, but they had one or two full time developers doing that.
Matthias