Upcoming freeze goals for clojure-team!

[Alex Miller]

On Sun, Nov 1, 2020 at 6:41 PM Rob Browning <rlb at defaultvalue.org> wrote:

> Alex Miller <alex at puredanger.com> writes:
>
> > jgit has still not been updated in the tools deps tree. It's not a
> > straightforward upgrade (would probably switch from jsch to apache mina
> as
> > well) and we continue to contemplate swapping it for shelling out to git
> > which has been spiked out. At some point, I'll have some cycles to focus
> on
> > this but not sure when.
>
> Hmm, if do end up with time to work on the clj deps (i.e. jgit), I
> wondered if there was a chance that it might be more helpful for me to
> try to assist with the "external git" work (if that's something that
> could actually use help).
>

We have a working external git fork, just needs some time looking at the
tradeoffs, so not really any code work to do, just attention and
decision-making.


>
> Though I suppose possibly not, at least for bullseye, if a newer clj
> would be pulling a lot of other additional deps that we don't have
> packaged yet.
>

Deps have been updated, but not sure what the delta is vs whatever older
version you're comparing to.


>
> And I'm not sure it's relevant, but I have some experience with git
> communications by way of bup, though I'm guessing that clj might not
> need "git as a server" (via cat-file --batch, etc.), so that might not
> matter much.
>

Nope, no server stuff.
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