On 11/02/2011 06:00 AM, Jon Wiersma wrote:

Hi Shanto.

I've been pretty busy and haven't had a chance to update my packages for a bit.

I would like to see whomever is responsible for the eclipse-dltk-* packages also maintain the following packages as well:

• eclipse-antlr-runtime
• eclipse-dtp
• eclipse-h2-database
• eclipse-pdt
• eclipse-pdt-debugger
• eclipse-rse
• eclipse-wtp

I use all of these packages.

The reason for this is that these eclipse plugins all depend on each other in one way or another and it's hard to get several people to co-oridnate releases so they all work at once. Especially eclipse-pdt.

That's very much true.

Let me know if you're willing and able to handle all of these packages, keep them more up to date than I am and

I am willing to, but I should mention about some of my limitations before that:

1. I am not a Java guy. (but I know eclipse from outside well). 2. My Internet is a bit slow if you consider the size of eclipse packages. I still try to keep my installations up-to-date. As a maintainer, you may have to quickly download and test different versions/release types - which may not go well with this limitation of mine.

Other than these, I try to respond quickly when people marks/comments my packages out of date. I get remote shells to compensate where necessary. Simple release updates with version/url/checksum bumps goes fast. Only testing gets delayed. (However, does that matter much? Arch/AUR users are naturally testers. If I miss one, someone else will notice it and ask me to fix.)

And, I am a eclipse fan. Its bloated, slow and whatnot. But still there's no better tightly integrated all-rounder. Yeah, Zend could put some more care on PDT if you take into consideration their PDT originated sales, but otherwise, eclipse is great.

make sure that whoever takes them over after you will do the same

Will do.

and I'll try to co-ordinate a time to orphan them with you so you can grab them all.

Can we have a TU help us on this?

If not, I'll update them soon.

I just summarized above my advantages and limitations. Now you balance them with yours. If you think that can do better, lets have some TU help us.

Thanks, Shanto

Cheers,

Jon

On Tue, Nov 1, 2011 at 3:42 PM, Shantoshanto@hotmail.com wrote:

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I am sorry to bump this thread but it seems like my request escaped everyone's eyes last time. I brought this up in the IRC channel yesterday and some people suggested me just to bump it. So..

To recap, all eclipse-dltk-* packages from emphire are out-of-date: https://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?K=emphire&SeB=m

NOTE 1: DLTK Stable 3.0.1 was released on August 26, 2011: http://download.eclipse.org/technology/dltk/downloads/drops/R3.0/S-3.0.1-201...

NOTE 2: emphire doesn't seem to respond to user requests since 30th June: https://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=19400

NOTE 3: I do maintain some eclipse/related packages, and I am interested to 1) adopt, 2) update and 3) keep maintaining/updating in sync with upstream releases.

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@ emphire: Please disown these eclipse/dltk packages for now. If I adopt your packages, I promise, I will give these back to you as soon as you get back to AUR and ask me.

Thanks, Shanto (Arch UEU)

On 10/24/2011 09:24 PM, Shanto wrote:

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Ref: http://download.eclipse.org/technology/dltk/downloads/drops/R3.0/S-3.0.1-201...

All eclipse-dltk-* packages are out of date since August/September. While I have flagged rest of them just yesterday, eclipse-dltk-python was flagged since 2nd October, 2011. These out-of-date packages, in addition to some comments posted, make it apparent that emphire is no more interested or too busy to maintain these packages any more (no offence).

As I already maintain eclipse-platform and some related stuff, I am willing to adopt these packages if orphaned.

In addition, I am thinking if bundling these packages under a single package (eclipse-dltk or eclipse-dltk-bundle) makes better sense. (see the all-in-one bundle and integration components in dltk download page) Knowledgeable/experienced Eclipse users and maintainers, please suggest.

Thanks, Shanto