The State of Art... uh, Etherpad!

I've previously blogged about efforts to get Etherpad - yes, the cool collaborative service that got open sourced - packaged in Fedora. The original package was quite far away from actually being ready, since it still bundled all libraries and jar files.

Now this is only partly the case. I've updated the wiki with status information for each library and ripped about two thirds that could be properly replaced with system libraries out. New packages still live here. But this doesn't mean we're there yet: there's still one third to go!

So what's left now to get it actually in a proper state? On the packaging side:

• jbcrypt needs to be reviewed (#594808)
• derby and derbytools need to be reviewed (#532520)
• c3p0 needs to be packaged - an outdated review is available (#252054)
• sanselan needs to be packaged - we are currently missing maven2-plugin-release to proceed here
• yuicompressor needs to be packaged - its source fails apparently without modifications to compile with our current rhino though

The Rhino version in Fedora is newer than the one Etherpad uses, which I suspect could cause some of the issues. I'm admittedly no Java expert (in fact not anywhere close), so it'd be awesome if somebody could lend a hand and look into these.