Proposed F19 Feature: Simplify Java/Maven Packaging using XMvn

[Bill Nottingham]

Stanislav Ochotnicky (sochotnicky at redhat.com) said: 
> > I would assume that, even with approval, there's no way to stage these
> > changes before the mass rebuild?
> 
> There's too many packages I guess. It's likely we won't be able to transition
> *all* packages. If we manage to convert core let's say 300-400 I'll be happy and
> consider this all a success since that will mean we'll test the code in most
> possible situations.
> 
> Some simple packages could be converted automatically, but verification might
> actually ake longer than just doing it manually :-)

OK. Do we have an examples of 'common things you might need to know to
migrate your packages', 'how to verify your migrated package', etc? (Then again,
if it's just going to be a few people in the Java SIG doing most of the migrations,
it may not be necessary.)

> At this point I'm happy with automatic requires (which will likely keep us
> occupied to make sure unnecessary stuff doesn't creep in everywhere)

Nah, that never happens! :)

Bill