State of the Clojure Address:

Agenda: https://wiki.debian.org/Clojure/Goals

- apoikos has a bash script to automate packaging
- ehashman wrote clj-helper (clojure packaging script)

both self-admittedly "sketchy"

General Notes
1. State of lein... e# in the process of building the package
 - leiningen-core done
 - can't release until upstream fixes pomegranate (technomancy working on this)
 
2. State of boot
- tmarble filed ITP Bug#871913: ITP: boot-clj -- Build tooling for Clojure

3. Rationale for Clojure in Debian
- Applications such as puppetdb
- Many interesting projects from ClojureScript web clients to backend
  machine learning programs
  
4. Applications in the archive written in Clojure
   - PuppetDB (NEW)
   - Puppet Server (ITP)
   - NOTE: other ITP's RFP's listed on https://wiki.debian.org/Clojure/RequestedPackages#preview
   
5. packaging helper:
   - dh shawn and dbremner have done this emacs
   lein-helper, boot-helper
   - MUST have offline mode (use local maven repo)
   - Takes care of:
     + Building the jar
     + Calculating the CLASSPATH and setting it in the jar's MANIFEST
     + Running the tests
     
   
6. Clojure Team in Debian (?)
- Security issues (e# notes no CVE's against Clojure)
- Collaborate with Java Team on the (possible) uberjar idea (from keithp)
- Work with Clojure upstream (e.g. JDK 9 support)
- Markus and apoikos advocate collaborating with the Java Team
- e# suggests a separate Clojure Team may help users identify Clojure packages
- Markus if separate both teams should ensure that both have access control to both teams