Stanislav Ochotnicky (sochotnicky@xxxxxxxxxx) said: > I believe it might be nice to get everyone up to speed on what is > happening in Java world in Fedora and what is planned in near future. > > 1. Packaging guidelines updates > - I'd like to add guidelines for packaging compat libraries. Maven > already has support for this (see [1]) so I'd like to describe how > to package compat things properly. Together with unversioned jars we > already have, this is gonna make things easier. I'll add big red > "DON'T DO THIS IF YOU DON'T HAVE TO" of course... > > - Remove mention of maven2 in guidelines since all supported versions > have maven-3.x. Some other small cleanups as well perhaps > > - Add optional use of %generate_javadoc macro that automates > generating of javadoc subpackages (already available for a while, > not used though :-) ) > > - Update JNI part of the guidelines to reflect current practice. The > guidelines are actually out of date for JNI. > > - If you have things you'd like to include, please do changes directly > to [2] and we can discuss them later. We can always revert them if > we decide not to do whatever you come up with. Just propose > something sane :-) > > 2. Improvements to Maven packaging and creating of Maven repository > > - Carlo de Wolf is working on new maven macros/extension[3] that > would enable us to provide a proper Maven repository to developers > so that they can test against our Fedora versions more easily > > - There are still a few questions that need to be answered, but I > believe this will be the future for us barring any catastrophic > failures :-) > > 3. Various packaging efforts > - JBoss AS 7 > A F17 feature, a big chunk of JBoss AS 7 has already been packaged, > but more packages are still on the way. I am sure Marek Goldman who > is the main person driving this effort will appreciate any package > reviewers wanting to drop by. See [4] for current status > > - Resteasy, Picketbox, Hibernate and few other things > > Work being done by various people on #fedora-java. Currently some > work depends on JBoss being packaged so we'll see how it goes. It > would be nice to have some real-time status of these things I guess > so for the future I created [5]. > > If you have something to add, please do so! I CCed fedora-java, please > post replies to devel@ though :-) Any plans for sunsetting GCJ? Bill -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
