Fedora 11 target

[Fernando Nasser]

incl. Jesse for comments

Fernando Nasser wrote:
> 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 Spacewalk 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
> 
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