* Toshio Kuratomi <a.badger@xxxxxxxxx> [2011-07-23 20:03]: > On Sat, Jul 23, 2011 at 02:00:24PM -0700, Douglas Myers–Turnbull wrote: > > Hi, > > > > Just something I wanted to bring to attention: > > > > Java 7 is slated for release (after years of hassle and heated debate) > > on 28 July, 2011. > > I think this would be an important feature to include for the Fedora > > 16 release, and the months between Java's release and Fedora 16's 25 > > October release would allow plenty of time to integrate Java 7. If I'm > > not mistaken, if Java 7 isn't released this time around, it won't be > > in Fedora until the Fedora 17 release rolls around, nearly a year (!) > > after Java 7 is released. > > > > I created an unfinished, skeletal feature page here: > > http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/Java7 > > Unfortunately, I don't have the knowledge to help build it. I'm > > announcing it here in case whoever maintains Java 6 in Fedora, or > > someone else, is interested. > > I was planning to do this myself .. glad you started it :) I can take over the Feature and doing all the work if you're fine with it... > The alpha change deadline is a week and three days away so this is very > likely too late. If you want to try to get an exception to get this in, you > need to get the Java SIG excited to do it, get the Feature page finished > (with estimates of how much time it will take to finish and who will do the > work) and put it before FESCo/Feature Wrangler to see if they'll grant an > exception. > > Judging by the state things are in now, I don't know that it looks too > hopeful unless you get some Java SIG people to commit to working on it. > This is doable by the Alpha deadline. The main holdup for us has been a lack of OpenJDK TCK for v7. The actual RPM can be written fairly quickly. We were hopeful that we'd be able to push a more tested initial version. But given the deadlines, it appears we will have to push whatever we have right now and modify/fix it as needed when we have the TCK. Cheers, Deepak > Maybe a better idea would be to try to make your contingency plan into > a Fedora 16 feature and Java 7 as default for all of our java applications > a Fedora 17 feature (that would still need a fesco exception for a late > feature but if the Java 7 stack didn't affect the rest of the software on > the system, it would largely be a Feature needing release notes instad of > a feature needing coordination between maintainers. Those are easier to > grant exceptions for.) > > -Toshio > -- > devel mailing list > devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
