[jboss-rpm] jboss-as is alive and on the road to next update

Hi, You may be wondering what's happening in the jboss-as package world :) I know I haven't updated you since some time, but finally there is a bunch of news! I'm working on jboss-as-7.1.1-4. This will be a pretty big update, a lot of new subsystems will be enabled and the way I work on the spec will be changed. 1. New subsystems. Compared to 7.1.1-3, following new subsystems will be enabled: - org.jboss.as.arquillian - org.jboss.as.osgi - org.jboss.as.configadmin - org.jboss.as.spec-api As you can see, 7.1.1-4 is focusing on OSGi stuff. This involved packaging a lot of new JBoss OSGi dependencies (12 packages). As usual, you can watch the table for latest packaging info: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/JBossAS7#Current_progress 2. New way of working with AS7 patches With 7.1.1-3 we reached more than 80 patches to the AS7 codebase to compile it and make it run on Fedora. The amount of patches was pretty close to what RHEL5 had :) It wasn't fun to manage it. So far I moved new subsystems to minimalistic profile and afterwards I build it. Over the time, when I added more and more subsystems - the patch set was growing. Since we have only a few modules not available in Fedora, starting from now - I'm building default profile and commenting out modules which are still not available. This simple step will save me a lot of work and make the development more stable. I think 7.1.1-4 is going to have about 25 patches. Once we'll have all AS7 deps available, the goal is to rebase one more time and leave only patches that are necessary and remove everything else. This will decrease the patch amount one more time. 3. New linked modules The new way of building mentioned in #3 showed me that I forgot to link some modules. This will be fixed and about 35 additional modules (/usr/share/jboss-as/modules/...) will be added. 4. ExampleDS available There was one issue hanging since some time in BZ: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=812522 In 7.1.1-4 we'll have the ExampleDS finally available! That's all! If you want to help me pushing 7.1.1-4 out, please take some packages for review: - https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=830763 (free to review) - https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=832446 - https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=832443 High priority is #830763, since it blocks everything else... If you have questions or need help, please join #fedora-java IRC channel on freenode. Thanks! P.S. If you have time, please consider also commenting on this bug report: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=827584 --Marek