Migrate the Uyuni build process from Ant to Maven about mentoring HOT 6 OPEN

Ant files to be replaced are: https://github.com/uyuni-project/uyuni/blob/master/java/build.xml (used in the spec file only) and https://github.com/uyuni-project/uyuni/blob/master/java/manager-build.xml (used for development purpose only)

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@cbosdo @mackdk

Hi!

I’m Akash Kumar, a CSE engineering student. I have written a well explained proposal.

Looking forward to contributing!

Thanks,
Akash Kumar

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Hi, will this project open for GSoC 2024? Thanks for any info.

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Hi, will this project open for GSoC 2024? Thanks for any info.

As long as openSUSE and Uyuni are selected as mentoring organizations yes.

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HI @cbosdo @mackdk Just want to introduce myself here real quick, my name is Siva and I'm a student at Johns Hopkins in Baltimore studying Computer Science. I was looking through the project ideas in openSUSE and this caught my eye because I have done a similar task shifting a code base from Ant to Maven for one of the startups I am currently working with as an algorithm developer, Delineo Disease Modeling. The codebase I had to shift was significantly smaller but I just scanned through the Uyuni code base and think I can reasonably do this project throughout the summer. Would love to discuss more about this specific project and how I can start contributing.

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Would love to discuss more about this specific project and how I can start contributing.

You could start looking at our two ant files and merge them into a single one. Developers use manager-build.xml and the package build uses build.xml. The latter one is used in spacewalk-java.spec. The idea is to deduplicate the code between those two: this is a prerequisite of the conversion to maven.

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