About retiring OmegaT from Fedora

[Ismael Olea]

Hi all:

My first important package in Fedora was OmegaT[1]. AFAIK is the best FLOSS
computer aid translator tool available. With the time OmegaT has been
enjoying a very active development with a significant (to me) handicap: new
releases adds new features with new dependencies on java libraries not
available in Fedora. As you perfectly know, updating the package requires
to add each one of those libraries as new packages. But I can't find the
time for such that effort. That's the reason the last Fedora version is
2.6.3 and the lasts at upstream are 3.6.0 / 4.1.2.

So, I give up. I want to retire the package from Fedora because I'm sure I
will not be able to update it anymore.

I'll wait some days waiting someone expressing their interest on taking
ownership. Otherwise I'll start the retirement process.


Yours.


[1] https://apps.fedoraproject.org/packages/OmegaT

PS: OTOH I plan to publish OmegaT as a flatpak package via Flathub. Seems
to me it would be a lot easier to maintain that way. I'm aware Flathub is
out of the scope of Fedora :-/

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Ismael Olea

http://olea.org/diario/

[Yaakov Selkowitz]

On 2017-08-17 13:10, Ismael Olea wrote:
>  My first important package in Fedora was OmegaT[1]. AFAIK is the
> best
>  FLOSS computer aid translator tool available. With the time OmegaT has
>  been enjoying a very active development with a significant (to me)
>  handicap: new releases adds new features with new dependencies on java
>  libraries not available in Fedora. As you perfectly know, updating the
>  package requires to add each one of those libraries as new packages. But
>  I can't find the time for such that effort. That's the reason the last
>  Fedora version is 2.6.3 and the lasts at upstream are 3.6.0 / 4.1.2.
>  
>  So, I give up. I want to retire the package from Fedora because I'm sure
>  I will not be able to update it anymore. 
Then you should orphan it.  If nobody takes it up, then it will be
automatically retired.

-- 
Yaakov Selkowitz
Software Engineer - Platform Enablement Group
Red Hat, Inc.

[Ismael Olea]

On Tue, Aug 22, 2017 at 3:33 AM, Yaakov Selkowitz <yselkowi(a)redhat.com&gt;
wrote:


>  Then you should orphan it.  If nobody takes it up, then it will be
>  automatically retired.
>  
I thought about it, but it's so hard to update it seems to me to better
retire and reduce the noise :-m


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Ismael Olea

http://olea.org/diario/