Hi Hans-Cristoph, Le 2024-11-26 13:37, Hans-Christoph Steiner a écrit :
Another thing I can offer is help with funding for doing this work, if that is interesting to you. Specifically, NLnet's Mobifree fund (https://nlnet.nl/mobifree/) is likely to fund this kind of work because Gradle is so important for Android. And having Gradle in Debian means it truly is free software. I will happily help you put together a proposal for NLnet. The money would then go directly to you. They pay you as a gift from a foundation, and the overall process is relatively easy.
Well it's soon Christmas so I'm not against the funding ^ ^ but it may take a while until the Gradle package in Debian becomes suitable for Android development. I haven't checked that specifically yet but there is probably a bunch of really needed dependencies that would require packaging. My focus for now is first to make Gradle in Debian suitable for rebuilding Debian packages on a CI, second to make it suitable for Debian development using IDEs (IDEA specifically) which wasn't possible out of the box with the packaged Gradle 4.4.1 but I found out how this could be made to work.
If the foundation is willing to fund some work as well on packaging dependencies and upgrading Kotlin that may make sense and shift some of my priorities for what comes next after Gradle. You can mail me off-list to work out the details.
Cheers, -- Julien Plissonneau Duquène
