= Proposed Self Contained Change: Erlang 18 = https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/Erlang_18 Change owner(s): * Peter Lemenkov < lemenkov AT gmail DOT com> * Fedora Erlang SIG <erlang@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Update Erlang/OTP to version 18.2.x, and improve Erlang support in Fedora. == Detailed Description == Upgrade Erlang to version 18 which brings a lot of good stuff. Just a few highlights: * A lot of scalability and performance improvements. * Even better Ellyptic Curve Crypto support. * Initial support for IPv6 Erlang clustering * New language feature - maps. * Better, production-ready HiPE support. Aside from this, we plan to improve quality of Erlang and related packages. These are shortcomings we want to address: * We should enable so-called dirty NIF scheduler which is disabled currently. * Every daemon written in Erlang has its own logging solution which doesn't use neither syslog nor Journald. We should start switching them to Journald. * Erlang packaging is quite complex and mostly undocumented. * mprove coredump producing and investigating. == Scope == Proposal owners: * Upgrade Erlang to the latest version (18.2.2). -- Done! * Fix failures on i686 achitecture. * We must rebuild every package which requires NIF or Driver version (listed below in the Dependencies section) against Erlang 18.2.2. * Every Erlang daemon's systemd unit must require epmd.socket. * Allow EPMD implementation switching - Erlang is about choice! * We need to fill new review request for erlang-ejournald * We have to fill new review request for erlang-lager_journald_backend * Add another default directory to look for Erlang *.beam files. * Every Erlang package must require erlang-rpm-macros. * Upgrade outdated packages: * Ejabberd -- We'd better to package all the bundled libraries Ejabberd requires. * Riak -- Riak has growing Bugzilla backlog, and badly outdated. We have to address all of these issues and package some additional libraries required by new Riak version. * Wings3D Other developers: N/A Release engineering: N/A Policies and guidelines: * We should create Erlang Packaging Guidelines which doesn't exist yet. -- Jan Kuřík Platform & Fedora Program Manager Red Hat Czech s.r.o., Purkynova 99/71, 612 45 Brno, Czech Republic -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.fedoraproject.org/admin/lists/devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
