Clojure Team 2022 Sprint Report

2022-05-18T00:00:00-04:00

This is the report for the Debian Clojure Team remote sprint that took place on May 13-14th.

Looking at my previous blog entries, this was my first Debian sprint since July 2020! Crazy how fast time flies...

Many thanks to those who participated, namely:

Rob Browning (rlb)
Elana Hashman (ehashman)
Jérôme Charaoui (lavamind)
Leandro Doctors (allentiak)
Louis-Philippe Véronneau (pollo)

Sadly, Utkarsh Gupta — although having planned on participating — ended up not being able to and worked on DebConf Bursary paperwork instead.

rlb

Rob mostly worked on creating a dh-clojure tool to help make packaging Clojure libraries easier.

At the moment, most of the packaging is done manually, by invoking build tools by hand. Having a tool to automate many of the steps required to build Clojure packages would go a long way in making them more uniform.

His work (although still very much a WIP) can be found here: https://salsa.debian.org/rlb/dh-clojure/

ehashman

Elana:

Finished the Java Team VCS migration to the Clojure Team namespace.
Worked on updating Leiningen to 2.9.8.
Proposed an upstream dependency update in Leiningen to match Debian's most recent version.
Gave pollo Owner access on the Clojure Team namespace and added lavamind as a Developer.
Uploaded Clojure 1.10.3-1.
Updated sjacket-clojure to version 0.1.1.1 and uploaded it to experimental.
Added build tests to spec-alpha-clojure.
Filed bug #1010995 for missing test dependency for Clojure.
Closed bugs #976151, #992735 and #992736.

lavamind

It was Jérôme's first time working on Clojure packages, and things went great! During the sprint, he:

Joined the Clojure Team on salsa.
Identified missing dependencies to update puppetdb to the 7.x release.
Learned how to package Clojure libraries in Debian.
Packaged murphy-clojure, truss-clojure and encore-clojure and uploaded them to NEW.
Began to package nippy-clojure.

allentiak

Leandro joined us on Saturday, since he couldn't get off work on Friday. He mostly continued working on replacing our in-house scripts for /usr/bin/clojure by upstream's, a task he had already started during GSoC 2021.

Sadly, none of us were familiar with Debian's mechanism for alternatives. If you (yes you, dear reader) are familiar with it, I'm sure he would warmly welcome feedback on his development branch.

pollo

As for me, I:

Fixed a classpath bug in core-async-clojure that was breaking other libraries.
Added meaningful autopkgtests to core-async-clojure.
Uploaded new versions of tools-analyzer-clojure and trapperkeeper-clojure with autopkgtests.
Updated pomegranate-clojure and nrepl-clojure to the latest upstream version and revamped the way they were packaged.
Assisted lavamind with Clojure packaging.

Overall, it was quite a productive sprint!

Thanks to Debian for sponsoring our food during the sprint. It was nice to be able to concentrate on fixing things instead of making food :)

Here's a bonus picture of the nice sushi platter I ended up getting for dinner on Saturday night:

Debian Clojure Team Sprint --- May 13-14th 2022

2022-03-19T00:00:00-04:00

I'm happy to announce the Debian Clojure Team will hold a remote sprint from May 13th to May 14th 2022.

The goal of this sprint is to improve various aspects of the Clojure ecosystem in Debian. As such, everyone is welcome to participate!

Here are a few items we are planning to work on, in no particular order:

Update leiningen to the latest upstream version, to let some libraries in experimental migrate to unstable.
Work towards replacing our custom Clojure script with upstream's and package clj | clojure-cli.
Update clojure to the latest upstream version.
Work on debugging autopkgtest failures on a bunch of puppetlabs-* libraries.
Work on lintian tags for the Clojure Team.

You can register for the sprint on the Debian Wiki. We are planning to ask the DPL for a food budget. If you plan on joining and want your food to be sponsored, please register before April 2nd.