Hi All Over the current Ubuntu development cycle I have been working on packaging Jenkins (nee Hudson) and new dependencies from source against the existing set of Java libraries in the Debian and Ubuntu archives.
The packaging is now at the point where its pretty much all built-from-source (aside from one package - see [2] - working with upstream to get that resolved) and is functional on the current Ubuntu development release - indeed Ubuntu QA are using it to execute automated ISO and ec2 image testing for this release (see [4]). To date all work has been done outside of the Ubuntu archive in PPA's (see [3]) - this aligns to the objectives that we set for Ubuntu Natty (see [1]) due to the large volume of packaging work that needed to be undertaken. I have been feeding back any patches to existing Java libraries over the last few weeks (again see [2]) - these have mainly been around enabling Maven artifact deployment. I'm now at the point where I would like to start getting this work into the Debian archive (and then Ubuntu for the next release) so that both distributions can benefit from having this useful tool. As you can see from [2] this is quite a large piece of work; so I'm looking for developers and sponsors to help get the packages into an acceptable state and uploaded into the Debian archive. I've been trying to get in contact with the ITP owner (see [0]) but have not had any response in the last couple of weeks so I'm hoping that the Debian Java team can help me out! I don't think they are far off - I have been as thorough as possible in terms of reviewing licensing etc. However I appreciate that I've been working quite closely with these packages for the last few months and may be blind to any potential issues. Most of the packaging has been built using maven-debian-helper/mh_make so should be policy compliant - its pretty much lintian clean. Thanks for any help you can offer. Cheers James [0] http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=561963 [1] https://wiki.ubuntu.com/ServerTeam/Specs/HudsonSpec [2] https://wiki.ubuntu.com/ServerTeam/Jenkins/JenkinsPackages [3] http://launchpad.net/~hudson-ubuntu/ [4] http://jenkins.qa.ubuntu-uk.org/ -- James Page Software Engineer, Ubuntu Server Team
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