Fedora 11 target

[Fernando Nasser]

Karsten Wade wrote:
> Fedora provides a nice synchronization clock for release features,
> including your software package in Fedora.
> 
> The schedule for Fedora 11 is now set:
> 
> https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Schedule
> 
> Who is interested in having your software as a feature for Fedora 11?
> 
> I've set a goal of trying to get as many ISVs in to Fedora by the next
> release.  As a focus, I'm still able to commit some time to helping
> everyone here get problems solved.
> 

Hi,

We are still very far from being able to build everything in Fedora, so 
we still have to keep our external repository _for_ Fedora.

Furthermore, we all have irreconcilable dependency requirements among 
ourselves, so if one of the ISV builds _in_ Fedora will cause all the 
others to not run on Fedora anymore.


However, we have two goals for Fedora 11:

1) Upgrade maven to at least 2.0.8. Deepak Bhole has contributed an 
update to the package for 2.0.4 that he created with Ralph Apel's and we 
are going to try and bootstrap that into Fedora 11.  It is a complex 
project, several new dependency packages are required (have to be 
submitted, reviewed etc.) but it will allow many things to build in Koji 
as maven 2.0.4 does not build the newer versions.

2) Reach an agreement with the other ISVs and the Skywalker project on 
the version of some very basic libraries, so we can try and build these 
on Koji and reduce the external sets.  This will also make easier to get 
more than one ISV set installed.  It is not easy: some ISVs do not have 
the means to modify their code and things like the JEE AppServer (JBoss 
AS) are strongly tied to certain versions of libraries due to TCK 
certification. But I hope we can get at least an agreement on some 
jakarta-commons-* packages on this round.


Another question that have been asked many times is about announcements. 
  We have announced our JBoss As _for_ Fedora in the non-Fedora places 
and it has had a high acceptance.  But we'd like to have a way to 
announce ISV-like external repo-based things _for_ Fedora to the Fedora 
community as well.  If there isn't a mailing list that could accomodate 
such kind of announcements, would it be possible to create one?  A 
fedora-isv-announce list, for instance?


Regards to all,
Fernando