Fedora Desktop future- RedHat moves

[Rahul Sundaram]

Les Mikesell wrote:

> 
> I'd just expect fedora, given it's 'bleeding-edge' nature and close 
> coupling with Red Hat to be the first place that RH-owned projects 
> should be introduced and if it isn't, it seems like someone has dropped 
> the ball.

Not really. A lot of development within free software happens async. 
Upstream projects (even Red Hat initiated ones) are not necessarily tied 
to the Fedora release schedule and in fact in most cases are not. Fedora 
Directory server like I said is already part of Fedora. If you are 
talking about JBoss, it is a relatively recent Red Hat acquisition and 
many Java applications are not deployed in a packaged state but merely 
dropped into the system from a cross platform archive (jar or zip files).

The current stable version of JBoss was developed and certified for a 
older version of the JVM and JVM version details are a critically 
important thing for many Java programs even minor variations between JVM 
behavior can have a major impact in Java programs. The latest 
development version of JBoss is IIRC developed against Java 6. So when 
it gets stable, it can potentially be packaged within Fedora.

Rahul