I wanted to see if my own mental classification fitted with others on lang and collections. I am kindof splitting stages of a project into categories like these:
Experimemtation - where new ideas are tried Initial development - leading up to a 1.0 release Active development - adding and refactoring now you've used it Active maintanance - adding, but not refactoring Passive maintainance - responding to problems, rather than seeking to add new Asleep - Finished with, various reasons Whether this coresponds with any proper management scheme I don't know, but I reckon most if not all commons components could be classified using it. To do so might be useful to our users. I believe that [lang] is in Active maintainance since 2.0. I believe that [collections] went straight from Active development at 2.1 to Passive maintainance immediately after the 2.1 release which caused problems. Hence the last 6 months back in Active development have annoyed some. Collections 3.0 should represent the move to Active maintainance (ie. I hope we get a 3.1 at some point in the next 6 months). If people would find a classification like this useful, I could add it to the commons website, but I guess it might be controversial. Stephen --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
