Creating and publishing Forge packages for Linux (Fedora, Debian &amp; Ubuntu) would really help boost adoption of Forge, IMO. Telling someone to download an unzip seems simple enough, but there&#39;s just something even more elegant about:<div>

<br></div><div>sudo apt-get install jboss-forge</div><div><br></div><div>or</div><div><br></div><div>sudo yum install jboss-forge</div><div><br></div><div>(no sudo if you&#39;re hip enough, one of those GUIs if your glitzy enough)</div>

<div><br></div><div>I just discovered today that Fedora is trying to make package development easier than ever for Java developers. They&#39;ve created a plugin for Eclipse [1] that walks you through creating a package, starting from git clone all the way to publish to Bodhi [2] (think of it like Nexus for Fedora, sort of).</div>

<div><br></div><div>This may seem premature, but *trust me*, we want to think about this *well* in advance so that we have some chance of getting into Fedora 17 or 18. (The process for Debian / Ubuntu may go faster).</div>

<div><br></div><div>Btw, this will likely relate, tie into or help drive the JBoss AS7 on Fedora initiative [3].</div><div><div><div><br></div><div>-Dan</div><div><br></div><div>[1] <a href="http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_Packager_For_Eclipse_User_Guide">http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_Packager_For_Eclipse_User_Guide</a></div>

<div>[2] <a href="http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Bodhi">http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Bodhi</a></div><div>[3] <a href="http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/JBossAS7">http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/JBossAS7</a><br clear="all"><div>

<br></div>-- <br><div>Dan Allen</div>Principal Software Engineer, Red Hat | Author of Seam in Action<br>Registered Linux User #231597<br><br><div><a href="http://google.com/profiles/dan.j.allen" target="_blank">http://google.com/profiles/dan.j.allen</a><br>

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