Eduardo Romero wrote:
On Wed, 2008-10-29 at 09:10 -0400, Paul Mattal wrote:
Looks like no developers are really expressing interest in this. Java seems like a pretty important package to have in the official repos, but if no one is willing to maintain it we have ourselves a problem.
Is there a TU that is willing to take these packages on for community? I'll take these to keep them in extra, if nobody else does. I know I rely on them. I'll give it a week and then adopt.
- P
Geoffroy Carrier is a TU and wants to take them, as far as I understood from his personal email to me. But well, I do understand the importance of this packages in extra, I just am concerned for the quality and maintenance of the packages, when no developer has real interest in them. Also, I was pointed out in the discussion I had with Andreas, that openjdk6 is the future. And is what we want to support.
But well, the discussion can still go on here. So just tell me what is it going to be? There is one user that would gladly take them to community. But the point of maintaining them in extra is valid as well.
You know, I think it's more in the spirit of the thing to let Geoffroy take them. The person with the desire is likely to do a better job. I'm fine with letting them go to community if others are. If I still find them in extra after the week, I'll adopt them-- or at least update them one-time until we sort out the longer term. - P