<div dir="ltr"><div>I send again the following post. I can't believe not to get an opinion :)<br><br></div>Bye,<br><br>Andrea.<br><br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sun, Oct 20, 2013 at 11:37 PM, Andrea Musuruane <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:musuruan@gmail.com" target="_blank">musuruan@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Hi all,<br>
last April the following bug report was opened:<br>
<a href="https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=947457" target="_blank">https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=947457</a><br>
<br>
As I stated on bugzilla, metadata-extractor was just needed by JOSM.<br>
Updating metadata-extractor would break JOSM. Anyway I suggested to<br>
patch JOSM to use a newer version of metadata-extractor if he really<br>
needed it. I had no response at all.<br>
<br>
BTW, I am metadata-extractor maintainer, and not JOSM maintainer.<br>
<br>
This evening the submitter emailed me privately and I discovered that<br>
meanwhile, a new review request for a newer version of<br>
metadata-extractor was approved and now it is part of Fedora:<br>
<a href="https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1004563" target="_blank">https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1004563</a><br>
<br>
As I understand now, newer metadata-extractor is required by Apache<br>
Sorl and Apache Tika, which are not yet part of Fedora.<br>
<br>
He asked me to "exchange our repository" "to simplify some build with<br>
maven". And with that I presume that he would like to have his package<br>
called metadata-extractor because he has troubles to build sorl and<br>
tika.<br>
<br>
I think all this have been handled very badly. He could have told why<br>
he needed a more recent version of metadata-extractor in the first<br>
place, the reviewer of #1004563 could have checked if the package<br>
followed the naming guidelines and/or have checked if the package was<br>
already in Fedora.<br>
<br>
I still think that my original plan (i.e. patching JOSM). was more sensible.<br>
<br>
What to do now? What do you think?<br>
<br>
If it helps, if it makes things easier, I can release the ownership of<br>
metadata-extractor and someone else can have good care. I just<br>
packaged it because, as an openstreetmap mapper, I longed to have JOSM<br>
in Fedora.<br>
<br>
Regards,<br>
<br>
Andrea.<br>
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