As the maintainer of freemind, I also looked into packaging freeplane but I gave up since it adds a whole bunch of new deps. I didn't have the time and motivation to add all those, just for a program which basically does the same as freemind. I know that it does have some additional features and is a bit better maintained, but this didn't justify the additional workload for me.
This is also a result of the way Java projects ship their software which makes it hard to use it in a way, we need it in fedora.
I know that there were some issues of freemind with regard to exporting (which should be mostly fixed by now) and with the usage of Japanese Letters or Signs, but this is more an upstream thing and there is not much we could do about.
The only way freeplane is coming to fedora is that someone steps up and does the required packaging work. (Note that I am also not really a programmer and was also just an "end user" before I started working on fedora) ;-)

Johannes


On 04/12/2012 01:39 AM, nomnex wrote:

http://freeplane.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/Main_Page

Will there be a Freeplane package available on the F17 repository (&  Is
there a Freeplane Fedora package maintainer)?

I am using Freemind 0.9 on F15. It is not without problems.

Thank you