Features/IntelliJ IDEA

IDEA Community Edition in Fedora

IntelliJ IDEA

Summary

Add Community IntelliJ IDEA Community Edition packages and their dependencies into repositories. Along with Eclipse and NetBeans already provided by Fedora, IDEA is a popular Java-based development environment.

Owner

• Name: Lubomir Rintel
• email: <lkundrak@v3.sk>

• Name: Michal Ingeli
• email: <mi@v3.sk>

Current status

• Targeted release: Fedora 13
• Last updated: Nov Mon 09 2009
• Percentage of completion: 19.832%

Detailed Description

(TBD: Summary + Scope probably gives a rather complete picture of what this is about. Feature Wrangler, does this section really need to exist here?)

Benefit to Fedora

Fedora users will gain comfortable access to features of Communiuty Edition if IDEA, which include support for Java language, popular version control systems, GUI designer, etc. The overview of features is available in comparison matrix.

Scope

• Several new packages have to be added to Fedora
  • Pulled in from JPackage and adjusted to conform with guidelines
  • Newly packaged
• Some packages need to be updated (or compat packages added) to be compatible with IDEA requirements
  • This is the only change that touches existing stuff
• IDEA itself has to be packaged
  • The build system adjusted not to use bundled prebuilt code

How To Test

Each of the dependency packages will be QA-ed passing through standard packaging review process. Fair amount of packages contains test suites run in %check phase of the package build process.

Correctness of the dependency chain of the core (conflicts and requires) will be verified in several scenarios

• Minimal installation (in mock chroot)
• Desktop live installation
• Everything installation

Functionality of each of the plugins needs to be verified separately and the test plan is dependent on provided functionality and would vary for each specific plugin.

User Experience

• Install pkcon install intellij-idea
• Run idea

Dependencies

Since IDEA itself is a new package, nothing depends on it. Here are idea's requirements [1]:

Core

Package	From where	Notes	Ticket (review, etc.)
intellij-idea	Needs to be created	In works
cglib	Pull from JPackage	Need 2.1.3 version
nanoxml	Pull from JPackage	Review done, need cvs	532315
picocontainer	Pull from JPackage
xmlbeans	Pull from JPackage (in works)	Depends on saxon8 (532664).	227122
xstream	Pull from JPackage (done: [2])	Depends on jettison (508521, done), cglib (see above).
groovy	New package (upstream's RPM package is useless)	Big dependency chain. [3] At the very least we seem to need apache ivy and livetribe jsr. [4]
jna	Needs -examples subpackage		532208
junit4	Needs update to 4.6	Need to check dependencies	532210
microba	New package	Already done	532205
jgraph	New package	Need to review	532203

Plugins

TBD (can wait until Core is finished). No plugin is a hard dependency.

Package	From where	Notes	Ticket (review, etc.)

Contingency Plan

None necessary. If the work will not be finished early enough, the existing packaging work does not need to be reverted.

Documentation

The packaging will be well described in comments, this wiki page will be regularly updated with progress and serve as overview of what is done to anyone who would like to contribute.

Release Notes

It may make sense to add something similar to the following to What's New paragraph. Would need adjustments in accordance with features (plugins) that could actually be packaged:

IntelliJ IDEA Community Edition integrated development environment
is available in package collection for this release of Fedora. Most
important features include:

* Intuitive creation of GUIs similar to IDEA's own one
* Integration with Ant and Maven
* Testing with TestNG and JUnit
* Compatibility with Eclipse projects
* Language support for Java, Groovy, XML and Regular Expressions
* Version control with CVS, Subversion and GIT

Comments and Discussion

• See Talk:Features/IntelliJ IDEA