Java packages, guidelines, ...

[Colin Walters]

On Tue, 2008-03-18 at 11:41 +0100, Hans de Goede wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 18, 2008 at 01:17:15AM +0000, Kevin Kofler wrote:
> > There are a bunch of packages blocking F-GUIDELINES on the ground of being Java 
> > packages and the Java guidelines not being finalized. Yet there are another 
> > bunch of Java packages which have been in Fedora for years. This is 
> > inconsistent and just generally doesn't make sense. If what we have now is good 
> > enough for all the existing packages, why wouldn't it be for new ones? And once 
> > the guidelines are finalized, the packages can always be fixed to conform to 
> > them.
> 
> I understand your reasoning, I have pleaded the same on the packaging list, but 
>   without results. So now I've volunteered to pick up working on the java 
> guidelines and beating them into shape. Unfortunately I haven't found any time 
> for this sofar.

Can you give a pointer to (or explain) what the outstanding issues with
the current draft guidelines are?