Hey Julien,
Great to see you're still working on this. Hello from the Reproducible Builds
Summit. I was just chatting with Efraim of Guix. They did some work on gradle
bootstrapping, in case you haven't seen it, but he said that they have paused,
and are following your effort. Also, I talked with some of the people who
develop https://github.com/google/oss-rebuild for Google. They also are very
interested in your work on bootstrapping Gradle.
So I thought this would be a good opportunity to check in again to see if you'd
like help to try to get funding for this effort. I have some new ideas. As a
reminder, when I chatted with the NLnet people about your proposal they
rejected, I was able to clarify the idea to them. Then they said they should
have funded it. The key is that they want to see the work focused on
bootstrapping Gradle generally, without the emphasis on Debian packaging. The
Debian piece of the work can be part of the funding. The story of the funding
proposal needs to focus on free software bootstrapping in general.
All the best,
Hans
Julien Plissonneau Duquène:
Good evening (or morning),
There was very little progress again on intellij platform libraries these last
three weeks due to being preempted by other concerns and then health issues
forcing me to take a break this past week. Overall I could only manage to spend
2 hours on intellij-community-idea on week 39 where I could put some work on the
build scripts, and a few minutes this week updating the todo list.
“En même temps,” week 40, around 175° further east and 82° further south,
Vladimir packaged gradleup-shadow [1] and updated intellij-annotations [2].
[1]: https://launchpad.net/~vpa1977/+archive/ubuntu/gradle8-dependencies/
+sourcepub/17617376/+listing-archive-extra
[2]: https://launchpad.net/~vpa1977/+archive/ubuntu/gradle8-dependencies/
+sourcepub/17617442/+listing-archive-extra
My plan for this week is to work on building a recent kotlinx-coroutines
(starting from Vladimir's previous work) with the current (old) stack as it is
now blocking my progress on intellij-community-idea.
Cheers,
