Background: There are only a few active Java packagers in Fedora. And if one of them stops doing packaging we are in big problem.
Are you using/running
Eclipse or
Tomcat or
OpenJDK or
Netbeans or
IntelliJ Idea or
Dogtag PKI or
389 Directory Server or
Jetty or even
OpenOffice.org?
Isn't that a huge list already? Should I continue listing the upstream projects that we(active Fedora Java packagers) are involved into or even leading the developement?
If you are Fedora project needs you - NOW!!!
To help us keeping and developing these products.
There are 26 orphaned but critical Java packages:
classworlds - mbooth
dom4j - jwrdegoede- dtdparser
- hsqldb
isorelax - mbooth
jlex - mbooth
- jrefactory
jzlib - mbooth
- lucene
- ldapjdk
- objectweb-anttask
- plexus-ant-factory
- plexus-appserver
- plexus-bsh-factory
- plexus-compiler
- plexus-runtime-builder
- plexus-xmlrpc
relaxngDatatype - mbooth
tomcat6 - dknox
ws-jaxme - jwrdegoede
- xjavadoc
- xmldb-api
- xmlrpc
- xom
- xpp2
- xpp3
These packages are directly or indirectly needed by Ant or Maven - the 2 major build systems for Java software.You should know that if you don't have both build systems even OpenJDK won't be able to build on Fedora because it uses Ant but Ant dependencies are building using Maven.
Now is the time to stand up and pay your duty to the community by taking a package or two. It may look a small step but every time someone takes a package and do the small work needed to maintain it (most packages will took you just a few hours monthly or even quarterly) I have the time to look at/fix one more bug.
Consider joining and helping even if you are not using Fedora packages but you are using Java software downloaded from upstream on Fedora system. You will save time to the upstream developers - they/we :) are here.
If you are already a Fedora packager just get them in pkgdb if you are not but you want to join please contact me.
We are waiting for you!
P.S. See Bill's mail with more details about the dependency tree
here.
