Hey all, So far only Bob has voiced a concern with preparing to release a Jelly beta, and I believe his only concern is whether or not to release it under the Commons umbrella. So I'm going to start raising some release issues, and I'll steer clear of anything relating to packaging for now, just in case someone wants to propose moving Jelly soon. (Personally, I'm +0 on the idea; sounds like potentially good exposure for Jelly, but it doesn't scratch any itches for me. I still volunteer as release manager, regardless of Jelly's location in Jakarta.)
So here's my first issue: http://jakarta.apache.org/commons/sandbox/jelly/dependencies.html Holy cow. It's not the number of dependencies that concerns me, it's the number of dependencies based on snapshots and alphas. I know we're already considering breaking up Jelly into multiple jars. Thoughts on how to do that best? One possibility is two jars: one for Jelly and the core taglib, and another for all remaining tags. Another possibility is three jars: one for Jelly and the core taglib, one for "released" tags (i.e. tags with stable dependencies), and one for "beta" tags (i.e. tags based on unreleased dependencies). Or maybe both or neither or something else entirely. We might also want to consider employing separate CVS trees for each taglib, in the style of Jakarta Taglibs. That would make things like identifying/tracking individual taglib dependencies much simpler, although we'd have more maintenance overhead and we'd have to find a way to make Maven happy with the structure. Regardless of how we structure the JARs and the CVS repository, I think we should focus on identifying dependencies specific to Jelly and the core tag library, and once we have a solid list we should try to obtain as many released versions as we can manage. I'm uncomfortable releasing Jelly based on beta dependencies, and I think including snapshots is completely unworkable. - Morgan ===== Morgan Delagrange http://jakarta.apache.org/taglibs http://jakarta.apache.org/commons http://axion.tigris.org http://jakarta.apache.org/watchdog __________________________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail Plus - Powerful. Affordable. Sign up now. http://mailplus.yahoo.com -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
