| 17 Jul 2025 |
 msgilligan | * OpenJFX made a bad decision to ~~pretty much~~ by default force modules on people and that's caused a lot of pain. | 18:21:33 |
 emily | I assume we can't do anything as simple as just JAVA_MODULES_PATH=${openjfx} to make existing builds that expect it to be built-in work. | 18:21:47 |
| msgilligan | * OpenJFX made a bad decision to pretty much by default force modules on people and that's caused a lot of pain. | 18:21:56 |
| emily | FWIW, while I sympathize with the overcommitted part (or I'd just have done all of this stuff already), I think you overestimate the skill level required to twiddle some flags until you get a new build error :) I expect nobody has even tried to build our OpenJDK source package on Darwin in a long time | 18:22:54 |
| msgilligan | I will try to take a look at it in a few weeks, if nobody else has. | 18:23:59 |
| msgilligan | I guess this issue is the one for building OpenJDK on Darwin: https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/issues/313213 | 18:24:46 |
| msgilligan | * I will try to take a look at it in a few weeks September (or so), if nobody else has. | 18:42:59 |
| msgilligan | I'm not sure what assigning yourself on Issue on GitHub means to the Nixpkgs community, but I've started using it to mean "I am interested in contributing to this when I can". Will that confuse or upset anyone? | 18:44:42 |
 Infinidoge 🏳️⚧️ | I've always seen it as "$X is working on this", with varying definitions of 'working on' | 18:45:23 |
| msgilligan | Does "thinking about it" count? 🤣 | 18:46:06 |
| emily | I don't think it gets used that much honestly | 18:47:47 |
| emily | so you can probably assign whatever semantics you want | 18:47:52 |
| emily | but I would say that it will make someone else less likely to pick it up, because "someone else is already on it" | 18:48:03 |
| emily | so if you'd rather invite someone else to take it up and don't plan to get to it any time soon, then maybe skip the assignment | 18:48:15 |
| msgilligan | I don't want to discourage anyone! Good point. | 18:50:16 |
| msgilligan | I wish there was a way to mark an issue as "I'd like to help". i.e. one step beyond giving it a 👍 | 18:51:27 |
| emily | you can just comment :) | 18:52:09 |
| msgilligan | I do that. But it would be nice to be able to find all the issues I'm interested in helping on with a search on GitHub. | 18:53:44 |
| msgilligan | Like a bookmark or something | 18:54:01 |
| Infinidoge 🏳️⚧️ | Subscribe to the issue, then you can bookmark it from notifications | 18:54:28 |
| Infinidoge 🏳️⚧️ | It'll also just be in notifications in general | 18:55:23 |
| msgilligan | I'm already overwhelmed by notifications haha | 18:55:47 |
| msgilligan | ... but the bookmarking from notifications looks like it should work. Thanks for that suggestion! | 19:03:14 |
| msgilligan | @emily do you mind if I copy/paste this into Issue #313213? | 19:09:36 |
| emily | sure thing | 19:10:49 |
| emily | but I'm excited to be proven wrong when I see a build error and go "oh no OpenJDK is really doing something cursed" :) | 19:11:13 |
| emily | (I do think it's probably only a day or two's job these days though, now that our macOS support is much better) | 19:11:31 |
| msgilligan | "a day or two" probably means a week for me, but the Nix tasks I have on my to do list between now and September should probably help me level up. | 19:14:02 |
| emily | diving into the deep end is the best way to learn :P | 19:15:43 |
| emily | I'm happy to try and give pointers for anything that comes up but my available proper-review time is pretty limited sadly | 19:16:02 |
