[fedora-java] WildFly status (and future) in Fedora

[Marek Goldmann]

On this note, I prepared a COPR repo with latest stable WildFly:

	https://copr.fedoraproject.org/coprs/goldmann/wildfly/

This is basically the Fedora spec with one, but big difference - I'm not
building anything from source but just repacking the distribution.

It took 1 hour to adjust everything and set up the builds. Compared to
the time I spent on the "proper" packaging (over one year) method this
is like night and day.

--Marek

On Fri, 2015-08-07 at 11:13 +0200, Marek Goldmann wrote:
> Hiya,
> 
> It's been long time since I talked to you guys. There are many reasons
> for it, but most important one is that I was pulled to do some of the
> Docker work on the Middleware side and I simply had no time :/ Even
> worse, I do not see the end.
> 
> WildFly is in a pretty bad state now, sadly. New versions (8.2.0.Final
> and later 9.0.0.Final and of course 9.0.1.Final) are avialable since a
> while but it the package has not been updated. I did some work to make
> it happen:
> 
> 	https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1181081
> 
> But then I was pulled back to the other work and it basically died.
> 
> The current status is a result mostly because of lack of my time, but
> also no joy with dealing with such a fragmetized beast. The single
> distribution was split into pieces and currently the WildFly depenency
> chain contains around 200 packages, whereas I'm alone maintaing about
> 130 of them (if you want to take a look at packages I maintain:
> https://admin.fedoraproject.org/pkgdb/packager/goldmann/). When I was
> working only on packaging of JBoss AS (and later WildFly) this was
> doable, but in current situation - I'm not able to maintain it anymore.
> It's really sad to see how this energy put into this effort is now
> dissapearing.
> 
> There are currently many bugs reported against my packages (WildFly
> deps), but I just don't have time to fix them making some people upset,
> which is of course not my intention. Gil is helpful as always sending
> some patches, but I don't even have time to look at them :( Basically -
> maintaining WildFly is a full time work for one person.
> 
> I need an advice from you guys how to proceed in a best way with this
> stuff, since I'm not closely following the Java world in Fedora anymore
> (sorry!) maybe I'm missing some obvious solutions.
> 
> Orphaning WildFly (and other packages) is the last thing I want to do,
> but I'll do it if we'll not find any solution.
> 
> So, here we are, let's talk!
> 
> --Marek
> 
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