[pkg-java-blog] 01/01: Update whats-new-since-jessie.md with new ideas.

[Markus Koschany]

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Author: Markus Koschany <apo at debian.org>
Date:   Thu Apr 28 11:43:14 2016 +0200

    Update whats-new-since-jessie.md with new ideas.
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@@ -22,14 +22,36 @@ the next release. Here is a quick summary of the current state of the Java packa
    rate has greatly improved, climbing from 50% to 75% over a year.
  * Backports are continuously provided for the main applications: OpenJDK 8, OpenJFX,
    Ant, Maven, Gradle, Tomcat 7 & 8, Jetty 8 & 9, OpenJDK 8, OpenJFX, jEdit.
- * We have several difficult transitions ahead: BND 3, BouncyCastle 1.54,
-   Tomcat 7 to 8, Jetty 8 to 9, ASM 5, and of course Java 9. Some help would
-   be welcome.
  * The transition to Maven 3 has been completed and the packages are no longer
    built with Maven 2.
+ * We replaced several obsolete libraries and transitioned to their latest
+   versions like asm2, commons-net1 and commons-net2. Groovy 1.x was replaced
+   with Groovy 2 and we upgraded BND, an important tool to develop with OSGi, and
+   more than thirty of its reverse-dependencies from the 1.x series to version 2.4.1.
  * New packaging tools have been created to work with Gradle (gradle-debian-helper)
    and Ivy (ivy-debian-helper).
 
+### Outlook, goals and request for help
+
+ * We have several difficult transitions ahead: BND 3, BouncyCastle 1.54,
+   Tomcat 7 to 8, Jetty 8 to 9, ASM 5, and of course Java 9. Some help would
+   be welcome.
+ * Eclipse is severely outdated and currently not part of Testing. We would
+   like to update this important piece of software and its corresponding
+   modules to the latest upstream release but we need more active people who
+   want to maintain them. If you care for the Eclipse eco-system, please get in
+   touch with us.
+ * We still are in the middle of removing [old libraries](https://wiki.debian.org/Java/Oldlibs)
+   like asm3, commons-httpclient or the servlet 2.5 API which is part of the
+   Tomcat 6 source package.
+ * Want to see [Azureus/Vuze](https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/azureus) in
+   Stretch again? Packaging is almost complete but we are looking for someone who
+   clarifies remaining licensing issues with upstream and wants to maintain the
+   software for the foreseeable future.
+ * You have more ideas and want to get involved with the Java Team? Just send
+   your suggestions to debian-java at lists.debian.org or chat with us on IRC at
+   irc.debian.org, #debian-java.
+
 ### Package updates
 
 The packages listed below detail the changes in jessie-backports and testing.

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