On Fri, Jan 20, 2012 at 9:11 PM, Thomas Koch <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, > > I'm just exploring abdera, starting directly with abdera2 for a groupware ReST > API[1]. I really like that you use good building blocks (Joda Time, Guava). > Somebody asked that Abdera2 should be released better sooner then later. > > However there still seems to be some edges that could be smoothed now while > the API breaks anyway. Why not release a kind of preview, with a warning that > the API is not yet final? > > How is your process for abdera2? Do I need to fill jira issues and attach > patches or would you pull contributions from a Git repo? (Did you notice that > the last abdera2 commit in the Git mirror is from September 20th? Would you > mind asking Jukkaz via [email protected]?) > > Would you accept patches for: > - Javadocs > - Some more Guava goodies: Immutable collections, Objects.equal > - Immutability, use Builders instead of Setters > - Remove some @SurpressWarnings and fix the Warnings > - There are some "Map<String, Object> parameters" which seems to only ever > contain Strings. It feels odd not to have type safety there. But I don't yet > fully understand those. > > [1] https://github.com/thkoch2001/bachelor-thesis > > Being called to bed now... :-) > > Best regards, > > Thomas Koch, http://www.koch.ro
Hi Thomas, Yes we would gratefully accept patches. I'm also very keen to grow our small number of committers by adding people who show interest in helping. I agree with you too about doing a preview type release, working on that right now. ...ant
