Re: An update, and happy Thanksgiving

[Peter Donald <pe...@realityforge.org>]

Sounds like a plan. I think I have some time later this month to play
around with naether

On Fri, Dec 30, 2016 at 5:58 PM, Antoine Toulme <an...@toulme.name> wrote:

> 1.5.1 is slipping into 2017. No worries, we’ll get it down.
>
>
> > On Dec 4, 2016, at 10:04 PM, Antoine Toulme <an...@toulme.name> wrote:
> >
> >>
> >> On Nov 23, 2016, at 2:22 PM, Peter Donald <pe...@realityforge.org>
> wrote:
> >>
> >> Hi,
> >>
> >> On Sat, Nov 19, 2016 at 4:12 PM, Antoine Toulme <an...@toulme.name>
> wrote:
> >>
> >>> the board meeting went over well.
> >>>
> >>
> >> great.
> >>
> >>
> >>> We’re still due for a big discussion on how to sustain and attract more
> >>> people to the project. I started something, and well now we’re a month
> >>> later.
> >>>
> >>
> >> Yep. Sorry - I am not going to be much help until after the xmas season
> :(
> >> Small child and large family :)
> > No worries.
> >>
> >> 1.5.1 is still very much time bound to Christmas time. Interestingly, no
> >>> bugs on 1.5.0 have surfaced but one, so far.
> >>>
> >>
> >> Nothing popped up here in all our testing. So I think it must be fairly
> >> solid.
> > Cool.
> >>
> >>
> >>> I’m going to try to knock a few things off the bug list.
> >>>
> >>
> >> Great. The requests that I hear are often about how to make it easier to
> >> integrate into the wider ecosystem. In no particular order the requests
> are;
> >>
> >> * Easier to launch/install (which your docker work may handle)
> > OK. Still much to do there.
> >> * Integrate `buildr/custom_pom` into core and just make it the default
> pom
> >> generated.
> > BUILDR-729 filed.
> >> * Add a mechanism to more easily declare "provided" dependencies. It has
> >> been suggested that something like "compile.provides << :mydep" may work
> >> but not sure how this request interacts with `buildr/custom_pom`. Maybe
> >> `custom_pom` could be based of this.
> > Added as a comment of BUILDR-729.
> >> * Add a way to do a "full" release to maven central. I am not sure
> exactly
> >> what this means but I get the impression that some tools allow you to
> >> upload to the maven central staging repository, "close" the repository
> and
> >> "release" the repository. I currently do steps 2 and 3 manually and
> don't
> >> find it too onerous but others have suggested that they would like it
> >> "fixed”.
> > Wow, not sure about this. I’ve been doing some releases to Maven Central
> with Buildr and it did look like you need to do those steps manually.
> > I filed BUILDR-730 for this.
> >>
> >> Anyhoo - just in case you need some new ideas ;)
> >>
> >>
> >>>
> >>> I played with making a Docker image using a minified JDK9 image to run
> >>> Buildr. RJB doesn’t work well with it right now.
> >>> https://github.com/atoulme/docker-buildr/blob/master/Dockerfile <
> >>> https://github.com/atoulme/docker-buildr/blob/master/Dockerfile>
> >>>
> >>
> >>
> >> Interesting. We use an alpine+jdk7 image locally. I may experiment with
> it
> >> over the weekend ;)
> >>
> >>
> >> --
> >> Cheers,
> >>
> >> Peter Donald
>
>


-- 
Cheers,

Peter Donald