Hi, On Wed, Nov 13, 2013 at 10:17 AM, Marcel Offermans <[email protected]> wrote: > Hey guys, > > As you all know, a lot of things have happened recently within the ACE > project. We’ve rewritten the complete management agent, added quite a few > features to the server and squashed bugs. With all of this work done I feel > we should start working towards a new release now, but I’d like to get > everbody’s opinion and check if there are things we forgot about that really > need to make it into a new release. >
A big question is what we will do with the 'old' management agent. At present that code is still scattered throughout several projects. So.. will we keep supporting it, deprecate it until the next, or purge it? I think installed base is low en keeping it around surely will give a lot of overhead in maintaining the codebase and moving forward on interfaces. For that reason I would argue to purge it. > One thing I would like to do is to upgrade to the latest Bndtools 2.2.2 > version and enable support for baselining. Baselining will give us a lot of > tool support to ensure our code (bundles and exported packages) is > semantically versioned. To leverage baselining support there are a couple of > things we need to do: > > * We need the to start putting @ProviderType and @ConsumerType annotations > on all our APIs. In fact, we need to “retrofit” this to our 1.0.0 release to > ensure the baselining works correctly. These annotations are not magically > available, but we can add them to the global build path > (cnf/ext/defaults.bnd). > > * We need to keep a copy of all released bundles (the latest version of > each) in a repository to baseline against. Because we don’t want our build to > break when we’re off-line I propose we put them in a local repository. We > probably need to build those artifacts with the Eclipse compiler to prevent > problems that will otherwise occur because of differences between ecj and > javac so: checkout with Eclipse, build, collect all bundles from "generated" > folders and publish them into the releaserepo in cnf. We also want to add > them to the -deps artifact so people can easily get started with a release > with baselining enabled. > +1 > If anybody else has input, speak up! :) WDYT? > What will the (semantic) version of the release be? On the agent side it feels like a major.. but that may depend on what we do with the old one. grz Bram > Greetings, Marcel >
