Daniel John Debrunner wrote:
Rick Hillegas wrote:
Daniel John Debrunner wrote:
I'm trying to add Java security manager checks (DERBY-3462) to the
JMX MBeans so that security is not compromised by the addition of
JMX. While I'm not blocked by DERBY-2109, if I proceed ahead of
DERBY-2019 committing code JMX related permission code then any
DERBY-2109 patch will have to re-worked again. However since there
doesn't seem to be any activity on DERBY-2109 I may just go ahead
anyway.
Dan.
Please do not do this, at least not in a way which will make it
necessary to rework and retest DERBY-2109.
I'll avoid doing this, I think there is a temp workaround I can do. If
we get to the branch cutoff though without any progress on DERBY-2109
then changes may need to be made.
Thanks, Dan.
Martin is actively working on this feature and deserves our patience
and respect.
That's great, but you have to look at it from the issue of activity on
the list: Given no messages for over two weeks from any contributor
there are a number of scenarios one can imagine from not being active
on derby anymore to being stuck on a problem that the community could
possibly help with. Without communication it's impossible to tell so
one has to assume not active if one wants to fry a fish in the same or
overlapping area.
Each rework/retest cycle is turning out to be very expensive.
Is there a way the community could help, posting a newer version of
the patch, helping solve issues, running the tests on various platforms?
It looks as though Martin has posted a comment on DERBY-2109.
I think this patch would have benefited from continuing the
incremental development approach it started with. The current patch is
trying to solve at least four issues. With an incremental approach my
opinion is that most of the current patch's functionality could have
already been committed, allowing focus on specific problems and a
quicker turn-around on testing etc. I wonder if some folks are
reluctant to perform incremental development because they think
patches are too slow to be applied, thus they do a mega-patch which of
course will take time to commit, thus we have a self-fulfilling prophecy?
Dan.
