Development and maintainership of freemind in fedora

[Johannes Lips]

Hi all,

I am currently maintaining freeminda and various other related dependencies
in fedora.
I am now working full-time and not a student any more, so the time I could
devote to work on packaging is reduced a lot.
This is not a problem with packages where you have an easy upstream, which
is not the case for most of my Java packages.
Therefore I am not going to have the time, to put enough effort into
packaging up the new version of freemind and adopt all the changes upstream
made to plugins and various other parts of the package.

This is why I am looking for someone who would like to take over these
packages and work on them. I am not going to orphan them straight away but
if I am not able to update to the latest stable upstream version there's
not a lot of sense in keeping it in fedora.

I hope someone will help me to keep freemind in fedora,

Johannes

[Johannes Lips]

On Thu, Nov 15, 2012 at 5:46 PM, Johannes Lips wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I am currently maintaining freeminda and various other related
> dependencies in fedora.
> I am now working full-time and not a student any more, so the time I could
> devote to work on packaging is reduced a lot.
> This is not a problem with packages where you have an easy upstream, which
> is not the case for most of my Java packages.
> Therefore I am not going to have the time, to put enough effort into
> packaging up the new version of freemind and adopt all the changes upstream
> made to plugins and various other parts of the package.
>
> This is why I am looking for someone who would like to take over these
> packages and work on them. I am not going to orphan them straight away but
> if I am not able to update to the latest stable upstream version there's
> not a lot of sense in keeping it in fedora.
>
> I hope someone will help me to keep freemind in fedora,
>
> Johannes

Well, ok so I had to do it on my own. ;-)
I finally managed to get freemind 1.0.0 to compile and obviously the new
dependencies allow the compilation as well.
Still it's not really usable and I will have to work on smoothing the rough
edges, but I see some possibilities to bring all that to fedora.
JMapViewer and Jortho need a review and I will submit them as soon as
possible, so that the new freemind release can enter fedora as soon as
possible.

All the best,

Johannes

[Mikolaj Izdebski]

> JMapViewer and Jortho need a review and I will submit them as soon as
> possible, so that the new freemind release can enter fedora as soon
> as possible.

Feel free to add me to CC once you submit these review requests
(or ping me on IRC).  I'll be glad to help.

--
Mikolaj Izdebski

[Johannes Lips]

Hi all,

I uploaded the latest status of my work to my fedorapeople.org account.
I would be glad if someone could help me out, because currently it's not 
compiling and I have no clue how to fix this, because it broke for no 
apparent reason.
You would need to build and install JOrtho and JMapViewer first.

http://hannes.fedorapeople.org/JMapViewer-2013.01.13-1.fc18.src.rpm 
http://hannes.fedorapeople.org/JOrtho-0.5-1.fc18.src.rpm
http://hannes.fedorapeople.org/freemind-1.0.0-0.2.RC_2.fc18.src.rpm

Thanks in advance,

Johannes

[Johannes Lips]

Hi all,

ok finally late yesterday evening, with the help of David Walluck, we were
able to patch freemind to work with the latest version of JMapViewer.
That was one of the last steps and I finally have now a working package of
freemind, JMapViewer and JOrtho.
So I am making some progress and I am sure that freemind 1.0.0 will land in
f19... :-)

Best Johannes

[Johannes Lips]

Hi all,

I've set up a small repo on fedorapeople.org to bring it to a greater 
audience and receive some testing. [1]
I also filed the review requests for JOrtho and JMapViewer. [2] [3]

Cheers,

Johannes

[1] http://repos.fedorapeople.org/repos/hannes/freemind-1.0.0/
[2] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=923959
[3] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=923960