Can Netbeans 6.0 beta 2 or higher make it's way in the fedora repo?

[Hans de Goede]

Mark wrote:
>>> Packaging is not a free thing. It takes time energy and someone who is
>>> going to deal with it. Most people who have packages are usually
>>> swamped as it is... so if you see something you would like to get into
>>> Fedora.. first check to see if someone is already packaging it, and
>>> then volunteer to do it yourself (or help someone who can). Otherwise
>>> its not going to happen.
>> Plus, there's a little fame if not fortune, and usually a few people
>> willing to help.
>>
>> I'd be willing to be that if you can *use* netbeans, you can certainly
>> learn to *package* netbeans, and as an avid user, you're in excellent
>> position to make sure the package actually works.  :)
>>
>> -Eric
> 
> I can't make RPM packages from scratch so therefore i think it's best
> to leave that to a professional RPM packager. But if noone else is
> willing to do it than i would like to give it a try.. and i probably
> need a lot of help along the way.
> 
> So is anyone up to this? or is there someone that is willing to help
> me with this? i have nearly no rpm packaging experience. (i edited
> specs before and compiled the package but i didn't made a spec from
> scratch)
> 

I think that having netbeans in Fedora would be great, so I'm wlling to help 
were I can (I already maintain 170+ packages). But my java packaging experience 
is limited. Are there any jpackage people here who are also willing to help? 
Nicolas? Ville?

Also if I were you I would start with trying to get it to compile on F-8 using 
icedtea, don't worry about packaging yet, first just try to get it to compile 
and run from the released sources?

(Are the sources complete?)

Regards,

Hans