The trouble with metadata-extractor

[puntogil at libero.it]

Il 20/10/2013 23:37, Andrea Musuruane ha scritto:
> Hi all,
>      last April the following bug report was opened:
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=947457
>
> As I stated on bugzilla, metadata-extractor was just needed by JOSM.
> Updating metadata-extractor would break JOSM. Anyway I suggested to
> patch JOSM to use a newer version of metadata-extractor if he really
> needed it. I had no response at all.
>
> BTW, I am metadata-extractor maintainer, and not JOSM maintainer.
>
> This evening the submitter emailed me privately and I discovered that
> meanwhile, a new review request for a newer version of
> metadata-extractor was approved and now it is part of Fedora:
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1004563
>
> As I understand now, newer metadata-extractor is required by Apache
> Sorl and Apache Tika, which are not yet part of Fedora.
wrong, Apache tika is already part of Fedora
and for question of time only for import some new libraries for Wildfly 8.x
was disabled a module (tika-parsers 
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1019650)
but is required also , by some Bigdata (hadhoop) packages

> He asked me to "exchange our repository" "to simplify some build with
> maven". And with that I presume that he would like to have his package
> called metadata-extractor because he has troubles to build sorl and
> tika.
no i havent any trouble for me is the same
> I think all this have been handled very badly. He could have told why
> he needed a more recent version of metadata-extractor in the first
> place, the reviewer of #1004563 could have checked if the package
> followed the naming guidelines and/or have checked if the package was
> already in Fedora.
>
> I still think that my original plan (i.e. patching JOSM). was more sensible.
>
> What to do now? What do you think?
>
> If it helps, if it makes things easier, I can release the ownership of
> metadata-extractor and someone else can have good care. I just
> packaged it because, as an openstreetmap mapper, I longed to have JOSM
> in Fedora.
regards
gil
> Regards,
>
> Andrea.

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