Can someone please explain what is being discussed? I’m sorry I don’t follow the subtleties here.
Is there a code donation being proposed to Apache ActiveMQ? Cheers, Chris -----Original Message----- From: Rob Davies <rajdav...@gmail.com> Reply-To: <dev@activemq.apache.org> Date: Wednesday, March 25, 2015 at 1:47 AM To: <dev@activemq.apache.org> Subject: [DISCUSS} HornetQ & ActiveMQ's next generation > >(was: HornetQ & >ActiveMQ's next generation) > >Thanks Lionel - I agree. > >The [VOTE] thread was getting a little verbose, and a little heated. >There were a lot of opinions, and a lot of assumptions and its likely >there was some miscommunication when HornetQ was donated to the ActiveMQ > community. >On the plus side, its great that there are so many passionate members of > the community. > >It seems there is no consensus from the ActiveMQ community that HornetQ >should be the next generation of ActiveMQ - yet - and hence should be a >sub-project with its own name. >Personally, I believe there are a lot of advantages of starting >development of ActiveMQ 6 around a HornetQ core - but as Hadrian as >already pointed out - it does need to validate itself by growing its own > diverse community first. I hope the ActiveMQ community as a whole gets >involved in the code donated from HornetQ and pushes it the right way. > >Rob > > > > Lionel Cons <mailto:lionel.c...@cern.ch> > > 25 March 2015 >06:58 > > > (for the sake of clarity, I > think that this important subject deserves more > than the [VOTE] >thread currently used, hence this new thread...) > >Apollo (tagline = > "ActiveMQ's next generation of messaging") started in 2010 >as an >ActiveMQ sub-project in the hope of becoming ActiveMQ 6. At that time, >the > latest ActiveMQ was 5.4. > >Almost 5 years later, ActiveMQ is now >5.11 and some of the Apollo developments >(like LevelDB or MQTT) have >been merged into ActiveMQ 5.x. FWIW, Apollo is >still officially >advertised as "the core of the 6.0 broker" in >http://activemq.apache.org/new-features-in-60.html. > >In > parallel, last year, the HornetQ codebase has been donated to ActiveMQ. > The >ActiveMQ 6 RC assembled so far is HornetQ with Apollo's tagline, > "ActiveMQ's >next generation of messaging", hence the confusion. > >For > me, the fundamental question to answer is: has it been _decided_ that >HornetQ > will be the core of the next generation of ActiveMQ? > >If the >answer is yes then HornetQ can be called ActiveMQ 6.0 and we should get >a > stable, feature complete ActiveMQ 5.x replacement a few minor versions >later >(who trusts a .0 version anyway?). > >If the answer is no >(or not yet) then HornetQ should probably appear as an >ActiveMQ >sub-project, just like Apollo (still) is. HornetQ can evolve there >and > come closer to ActiveMQ "the next generation". Then, the ActiveMQ >project >should decide what will be ActiveMQ 6. > >Cheers, > >Lionel > Cons > > > >
