Hello JB, Thanks for the heads-up, and good luck with Karaf 3.0.0! If you have some time after that, could you please also look at a couple of “old” issues still on your name and decide what you want to do with those?
Greetings, Marcel On 13 Nov 2013, at 10:21 , Jean-Baptiste Onofré <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Marcel and the others, > > +1 about that. > > I'm pretty busy with Karaf 3.0.0, but I will take a look on latest changes > tomorrow. > > Regards > JB > > On 11/13/2013 10:17 AM, Marcel Offermans 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. >> >> 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. >> >> If anybody else has input, speak up! :) WDYT? >> >> Greetings, Marcel >> > > -- > Jean-Baptiste Onofré > [email protected] > http://blog.nanthrax.net > Talend - http://www.talend.com
