Greets all, I'd like to share my impressions of the current open issues for email and what I think would be a good plan for taking them on. I plan to prepare patches for most of the outstanding issues, but I wanted to ask for feedback on them as well.
There are currently 13 open issues in JIRA; happily one was closed last week when the OP got a new comment on the issue and marked it closed as being his fault. Of the 13: 4 issues: Fixes for, or new features for, charset support 4 issues: Improvements to how attachments work 2 issues: Simple-looking performance enhancements (both with patches I reviewed and that seem to be okay) 1 bug: HTML Emails with images don't display in Outlook 2000 (https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/EMAIL-50) 2 features: adding SSL support and generating Email objects from InputStreams or Strings (both of which seem useful) I know that email 1.0 was targeted at javamail 1.3 and jaf 1.0.2, but since then the 1.1-SNAPSHOT in the maven file has updated to 1.4 and 1.1 respectively, and Henri committed the patch I submitted to enforce the same versions in the build.xml. Therefore it seems that the decision to ship a 1.1 with the newer versions has already been made, so I don't see why any of the current issues should be postponed to a 2.0 release. Right now email is a very simple API, and I don't see a need either from my own use of it or from the current open issues to push a lot of new features onto it; rather the focus should be on making what's already there work better. In any case, I'm going to take some time to review the charset issues more closely and see if a good solution pops out. Please let me know if there's something else someone would like me to examine while I'm in there :) --Ben --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
