Re: [orbit-dev] Add as Committer

[Roland Grunberg <rgrunber@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Thu, 2021-01-07 at 18:22 -0500, Nitin Dahyabhai wrote:
> Hi all,
> This feels like an odd process, but after having
> https://git.eclipse.org/r/c/orbit/orbit-recipes/+/174164 approved for
> inclusion in M1, Jonah suggested I join Orbit as a Committer (perhaps
> more accurately, be added to its roster). As the Web Tools Platform
> has an interest in keeping those up to date, and Jakarta plans to
> have a EE Platform release every year, it would certainly make things
> a little easier in the future. And as keen as I am
> on Aurelien's efforts with Xerces, there are more Apache libraries
> that I'm also interested in updating.

Hi Nitin,

I think having more people on hand to manage the updates is great and
definitely needed. I only have one question generally regarding the
libraries that are already hosted under the Eclipse Foundation (eg.
eclipse-ee4j/).

Is there any effort being done first to try and generate p2
repositories as part of their release process ? We had the exact same
discussion with Jersey in 
https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=562366#c2 and I don't
think anything really came of it.

I'm definitely seeing a push to have Orbit do less packaging through
work in Tycho (OSGi-ifying artifacts) and upstreaming OSGi metadata
rather than have Orbit manage it.

Cheers,
-- 
Roland Grunberg