Welcome Bryan, and thanks for introducing yourself on the list! Indeed I hope we can find someone to review Jinwoo's contributions - I agree splitting them up into separate PRs seems like the way to go.
Kind regards, Arnout On Tue, Jun 17, 2025 at 5:31 PM Bryan Behrenshausen <bryan.behrenshau...@sas.com.invalid> wrote: > Hi everyone, > > Thanks for this great discussion so far, and for everyone's enthusiasm in > bringing Geode back to health. > > I'm a program manager in the open source program office at SAS, and I've > agreed to pitch in here to assist with the work of getting our Geode > patches committed to the project. I'm still getting my bearings, so please > don't hesitate to point me in the direction of any historical details about > this work that may be useful to me as I bring myself up to speed. > > I'm working directly with Jinwoo to continue this work and have the > following questions/requests: > > * As Jinwoo noted in an earlier message,[1] upgrading Gradle (and, > eventually, JDK) are key next steps for us here. To that end, Jinwoo has > been gradually bumping project dependencies in preparation for more > substantial work. He has four such requests still outstanding [2,3,4,5]. > When might someone have a moment to review these? I will also tap Niall > directly on GitHub, as he's been very helpful here in the past.[6] > > * We anticipate that the work of upgrading build system components will be > rather substantial initially, though the work will of course accelerate > future enhancements to the project and we are keen to get it done. We're > curious to know, however, whether (and to what extent) members of the Geode > PMC are interested in/available for collaborating on this work. Jinwoo is > working diligently here; however, the work represents a rather large > submission to the project that is perhaps best handled as several smaller > contributions (rather than a single PR). For purposes of our own planning > and prioritization, we'd prefer to know what overall PMC and community > bandwidth/availability for taking on this work looks like. > > Thanks again, and please let me know if I can clarify anything. > > ----- > > [1]: https://lists.apache.org/thread/62z6y7clblw4mlmjx559v2hgqvx85ll7 > [2]: https://github.com/apache/geode/pull/7897 > [3]: https://github.com/apache/geode/pull/7898 > [4]: https://github.com/apache/geode/pull/7901 > [5]: https://github.com/apache/geode/pull/7902 > [6]: https://lists.apache.org/thread/67xv4mqwqx8cq9xl3251rls95zm1jyk5 > -- Arnout Engelen ASF Security Response Apache Pekko PMC member, ASF Member NixOS Committer Independent Open Source consultant
