Red Hat’s Toronto office recently got 6 new interns. It’s going to be a fun summer with 13 interns sitting together in one cube area 
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Other than yelling very loudly for the whole day (I swear we were quieter last year!!) the interns are working on some improvements to yum. They’ve all used Eclipse before so they naturally wanted to use it. Very quickly they learned that we ship PyDev and so they tried that. Unfortunately we can only ship versions < 0.9.6, and currently we have 0.9.3. Even more unfortunately 0.9.3 sucks. Mostly because there were tons of additions and fixes since then, possibly also because of the way we’re running it, or because of GCJ. In any case, I decided that we *really* need to have a newer version, because this one is pretty close to useless as it is.
In the next few days I’m going to look to backporting PyDev 1.0.6 (latest released) to Java 1.4 and then pushing that as an update to FC5. We don’t have to do this often, but if it only takes 2 days, I can repeat the procedure before the end of the summer (when I’ll be going back to school). And then we could either repeat it again a few months after or just wait until we have real 1.5 language feature support (I don’t think PyDev uses any new library features, except Genericsized collections).