[gentoo-dev] RFC: Create ejabberd project

[gentoo-dev] RFC: Create ejabberd project

[Hanno Böck]

Hi,

I'm currently working on getting ejabberd up to date in Gentoo.

There are a bunch of dev-erlang/* packages whose primary reason for
packagin is that they're dependencies of ejabberd (and they're becoming
more), most of them currently in maintainer-needed status.

I'd like to group those together as maintained by an ejabberd project
and a corresponding mail alias. (And hopefully in the long term won't be
the only person being in that Project.)

https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Project:Ejabberd

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Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: Create ejabberd project

[Haelwenn (lanodan) Monnier]

[2019-10-28 11:12:49+0100] Hanno Böck:
> There are a bunch of dev-erlang/* packages whose primary reason for
> packagin is that they're dependencies of ejabberd (and they're becoming
> more), most of them currently in maintainer-needed status.
> 
> I'd like to group those together as maintained by an ejabberd project
> and a corresponding mail alias. (And hopefully in the long term won't be
> the only person being in that Project.)
> 
> https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Project:Ejabberd

Wouldn't a Erlang project be better, specially as there is the Perl and 
Python projects which are there for probably the same reasons?

Also saying this from a Elixir (language which borrows a lot from Erlang, 
like it's VM, librairies and fault-tolerance) developer point of view 
which tried to package pleroma few months ago in my overlay, there is a 
bunch of shared dependencies and I'm pretty sure there will be more 
Elixir applications in the wild.

Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: Create ejabberd project

[Hanno Böck]

On Mon, 28 Oct 2019 18:46:15 +0100
"Haelwenn (lanodan) Monnier" <contact@hacktivis.me> wrote:

> > https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Project:Ejabberd  
> 
> Wouldn't a Erlang project be better, specially as there is the Perl
> and Python projects which are there for probably the same reasons?

An erlang project would create a wrong impression. I have currently no
interest in maintaining the larger erlang ecosystem.
If there is developer interest in a generic erlang project that would
of course be fine, but it would be a project with a different focus.
(And I don't think there would be any problem coordinating the 2
projects if they exist, but for now that's a hypothetical situation.)

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Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: Create ejabberd project

[Kent Fredric]

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On Mon, 28 Oct 2019 18:46:15 +0100
"Haelwenn (lanodan) Monnier" <contact@hacktivis.me> wrote:

> Wouldn't a Erlang project be better, specially as there is the Perl and 
> Python projects which are there for probably the same reasons?

I think a "jabber" project would be a more suitable fit for this than
"erlang".

Then perhaps there can be a subproject of "jabber" for "ejabberd".

"erlang" is probably too broad in scope.

If there was an erlang project, then it might be sensible to have
"ejabberd" be co-maintained by erlang.


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Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: Create ejabberd project

[Michał Górny]

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On Wed, 2019-10-30 at 05:47 +1300, Kent Fredric wrote:
> On Mon, 28 Oct 2019 18:46:15 +0100
> "Haelwenn (lanodan) Monnier" <contact@hacktivis.me> wrote:
> 
> > Wouldn't a Erlang project be better, specially as there is the Perl and 
> > Python projects which are there for probably the same reasons?
> 
> I think a "jabber" project would be a more suitable fit for this than
> "erlang".
> 
> Then perhaps there can be a subproject of "jabber" for "ejabberd".

Why would you create another entirely useless artificial project nobody
needs?

> 
> "erlang" is probably too broad in scope.
> 
> If there was an erlang project, then it might be sensible to have
> "ejabberd" be co-maintained by erlang.
> 

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Best regards,
Michał Górny


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