Re: [fedora-java] Roadmap for Java things in Fedora

[Bill Nottingham]

Stanislav Ochotnicky (sochotnicky(a)redhat.com) said: 
>  I believe it might be nice to get everyone up to speed on what is
>  happening in Java world in Fedora and what is planned in near future.
>  
>  1. Packaging guidelines updates
>    - I'd like to add guidelines for packaging compat libraries. Maven
>      already has support for this (see [1]) so I'd like to describe how
>      to package compat things properly. Together with unversioned jars we
>      already have, this is gonna make things easier. I'll add big red
>      "DON'T DO THIS IF YOU DON'T HAVE TO" of course...
>  
>    - Remove mention of maven2 in guidelines since all supported versions
>      have maven-3.x. Some other small cleanups as well perhaps
>  
>    - Add optional use of %generate_javadoc macro that automates
>      generating of javadoc subpackages (already available for a while,
>      not used though :-) )
>  
>    - Update JNI part of the guidelines to reflect current practice. The
>      guidelines are actually out of date for JNI.
>  
>    - If you have things you'd like to include, please do changes directly
>      to [2] and we can discuss them later. We can always revert them if
>      we decide not to do whatever you come up with. Just propose
>      something sane :-)
>  
>  2. Improvements to Maven packaging and creating of Maven repository
>  
>    - Carlo de Wolf is working on new maven macros/extension[3] that
>      would enable us to provide a proper Maven repository to developers
>      so that they can test against our Fedora versions more easily
>  
>    - There are still a few questions that need to be answered, but I
>      believe this will be the future for us barring any catastrophic
>      failures :-)
>  
>  3. Various packaging efforts
>    - JBoss AS 7
>      A F17 feature, a big chunk of JBoss AS 7 has already been packaged,
>      but more packages are still on the way. I am sure Marek Goldman who
>      is the main person driving this effort will appreciate any package
>      reviewers wanting to drop by. See [4] for current status
>  
>    - Resteasy, Picketbox, Hibernate and few other things
>      
>      Work being done by various people on #fedora-java. Currently some
>      work depends on JBoss being packaged so we'll see how it goes. It
>      would be nice to have some real-time status of these things I guess
>      so for the future I created [5].
>      
>  If you have something to add, please do so! I CCed fedora-java, please
>  post replies to devel@ though :-)     
Any plans for sunsetting GCJ?

Bill