[Bug 508836] Review Request: colossus - computer implementation of Titan

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--- Comment #18 from Bruno Wolff III <bruno at wolff.to>  2009-07-07 16:32:23 EDT ---
I am still getting stuff in my javadoc. So there is probably something
different about my build environment. Are you building if F11? Do you have the
openjdk stuff installed? Any other ideas on likely things to be different?

On the versioning, I have been consulting with upstream. They have been using
date based releases so far. There was some thoughts that they might switch, but
they haven't made a decision to switch yet.

What I have is closer to a prerelease version. I have asked them for guidance
here. One possibility is just putting the package in rawhide until their next
release. They are thinking about doing one soon. Once that is done I would
expect to back port occasional fixes not follow svn. They haven't done much
work in released branches in the past. I used a date in the prerelease because
they currently use date based versions. Though because I don't know the date of
the next release I can't use that.

What they put up, they call public builds. They do this when there is enough
new stuff that it seems worth doing. They pick what seems to be a solid
snapshot and use that. When it turns out the snapshot wasn't that solid they
have done another public build quickly, but normally there are long gaps
between releases.

There has been a lot of refactoring going on lately. So the current version is
a lot different than what was released in 2008. Also some of the dependencies
are different. For example they replaced a dependency on an options parsing
package in order to make it easier to get Colossus into Fedora. That dependency
wasn't in Fedora and didn't have an active upstream making not very desirable
to get into Fedora.

Thank you for helping by doing this review.

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