Re: gradle reboot
Hi Hans-Cristoph,
Le 2024-11-26 13:37, Hans-Christoph Steiner a écrit :
Another thing I can offer is help with funding for doing this work, if
that is interesting to you. Specifically, NLnet's Mobifree fund
(https://nlnet.nl/mobifree/) is likely to fund this kind of work
because Gradle is so important for Android. And having Gradle in
Debian means it truly is free software. I will happily help you put
together a proposal for NLnet. The money would then go directly to
you. They pay you as a gift from a foundation, and the overall process
is relatively easy.
Well it's soon Christmas so I'm not against the funding ^ ^ but it may
take a while until the Gradle package in Debian becomes suitable for
Android development. I haven't checked that specifically yet but there
is probably a bunch of really needed dependencies that would require
packaging. My focus for now is first to make Gradle in Debian suitable
for rebuilding Debian packages on a CI, second to make it suitable for
Debian development using IDEs (IDEA specifically) which wasn't possible
out of the box with the packaged Gradle 4.4.1 but I found out how this
could be made to work.
If the foundation is willing to fund some work as well on packaging
dependencies and upgrading Kotlin that may make sense and shift some of
my priorities for what comes next after Gradle. You can mail me off-list
to work out the details.
Cheers,
--
Julien Plissonneau Duquène
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