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The project is modernizing several stale dependencies that have caused issues for our users and developers: Guava, gson, and OkHttp. Otherwise, the activity remains low.
Modernizing gson is challenging due to our dependency on OSGi and on some gson packages that were removed from the OSGi bundle in newer versions. Keeping OSGi support has become challenging due to the lack of expertise across the active members. We are discussing different approaches and the tradeoffs of dropping support for that (and probably offloading that to Karaf or other projects) so that we can move forward the project without being blocked on this while providing a way for existing OSGi users to keep using jclouds.
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There was also interest from a user in helping us modernizing the builds and improve our Jenkins setups. We voted on welcoming him as a committer to facilitate as much as possible getting involved (he was a well-known member of the community that has been maintaining jclouds-related projects for a long time), but all the attempts to reach out to him even though communication was fluid at the beginning, just before the vote (to ask if he would be willing to become a committer) and post-vote, got no responses. Just before suggesting giving him committer privileges and permissions to help in the Jenkins setup, communication was fluid, but all communication attempts after that never got a replyand after it, all communication attempts failed and we never heard from him again, so he was not added to the committer group in the end.
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