On Wed, 29 Jan 2020 at 05:14, Andrew Haley <aph(a)redhat.com> wrote:
On 1/27/20 3:13 PM, Alex Scheel wrote:
> N.B.: I'd like to thank the Red Hat JVM team for being solid in
> their Fedora execution. But they maintain only the JVM, and not
> the rest of the Java ecosystem. :-)
Thank you.
One (perhaps) rather minor point in the middle of this important
discussion: there is no "Red Hat JVM team." We're responsible for the
entire base Java (SE) platform, that is to say the VM and the
surrounding Java libraries.
Also, we're not just responsible for RHEL and Fedora: our team and our
partners in a few other organizations are responsible for all OpenJDK
updates for 7, 8, and 11, everywhere, not just GNU and Linux. Which is
to say, apart from Oracle's proprietary customers, most of the Java in
the world.
The issue is that people (developers, users, maintainers) lump the
entire ecosystem together.. so yes you maintain that but why don't you
also maintain all the java packages which sit on that platform so it
is 'useful' to them. [Yes the question is one of scope, time and
resources.. but to a lot of people it needs clear explanations in the
same way that people will take their Ford to a Toyoto autoshop because
'its a car, you should be able to fix it']
--
Stephen J Smoogen.