Re: gradle reboot

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,