On Fri, Aug 5, 2011 at 2:12 AM, Henri Yandell <flame...@gmail.com> wrote: > I think we should move the current trunk off and call it generics-RnD. > > Then we should copy 3.2 over to trunk (or maybe 3.3, I seem to recall > that prior to merging the generics in we had a 3.3 ready for release). > > We then release 3.3. > > Then we start 3.4. We genericize some tiny part of it in a binary > compat way. Release. > 3.5. Genericize a bit more. Release. > 3.6... etc. > > We use generics-RnD code, pulling it over (and maybe deleting when > considered happy). > > Somewhere around about 3.28 we can decide to start on 4.0, pulling > over the remainder of generics-RnD. > > Hen
Yes, release early, release often. The only issue I can see is the time suck aspect of RERO. In [lang], it seems we've made an unwritten agreement to release once a month, that's pretty aggressive based on history. Are we talking about something like this here? Gary > > > On Wed, Aug 3, 2011 at 8:23 AM, Stephen Colebourne <scolebou...@joda.org> > wrote: >> I think that a key mistake was trying to do both generics and >> refactoring. I'd suggest that quite a few users would simply like a >> generified [collections] 3.5 that is fully backwards compatible (as >> the JDK was) and with no refactoring. >> >> Now, some of the API cannot be generified correctly, so for a v3.5, >> those should simply be left as raw types. >> >> Of course doing the above isn't fun, as it involves going back >> (again), but it it probably the right approach. >> >> Stephen >> >> >> >> On 3 August 2011 16:01, Paul Benedict <pbened...@apache.org> wrote: >>> Or do a pure generics release as 3.5 to satisfy that need... which >>> allows 4.0 to have generics plus the benefit of major refactoring if >>> necessary (could also be called 4.0 and 5.0). >>> >>> On Wed, Aug 3, 2011 at 9:55 AM, Matt Benson <gudnabr...@gmail.com> wrote: >>>> On Wed, Aug 3, 2011 at 9:48 AM, Gary Gregory <garydgreg...@gmail.com> >>>> wrote: >>>>> The most important theme IMO is generics. That's what has come up at >>>>> work recently in fact. Everything else except showstopper bugs can >>>>> wait IMO. >>>> >>>> Indeed, this seems to resonate with Hen's recent treatise on >>>> (paraphrased) why the hell we take so long. >>>> >>>> Matt >>>> >>>>> >>>>> Gary >>>>> >>>>> On Wed, Aug 3, 2011 at 9:16 AM, Simone Tripodi <simonetrip...@apache.org> >>>>> wrote: >>>>>> Hi all guys, >>>>>> I'm (re)starting having a good slot of spare time, I volunteered to >>>>>> help Matt on finalizing the [collections] release, but after had a >>>>>> look at the open issues I think we should agree on what including and >>>>>> what not. >>>>>> Does anyone already have a good overview/idea of collections roadmap? >>>>>> Many thanks in advance, have a nice day!!! >>>>>> Simo >>>>>> >>>>>> http://people.apache.org/~simonetripodi/ >>>>>> http://www.99soft.org/ >>>>>> >>>>>> --------------------------------------------------------------------- >>>>>> To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@commons.apache.org >>>>>> For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@commons.apache.org >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> -- >>>>> Thank you, >>>>> Gary >>>>> >>>>> http://garygregory.wordpress.com/ >>>>> http://garygregory.com/ >>>>> http://people.apache.org/~ggregory/ >>>>> http://twitter.com/GaryGregory >>>>> >>>>> --------------------------------------------------------------------- >>>>> To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@commons.apache.org >>>>> For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@commons.apache.org >>>>> >>>>> >>>> >>>> --------------------------------------------------------------------- >>>> To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@commons.apache.org >>>> For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@commons.apache.org >>>> >>>> >>> >>> --------------------------------------------------------------------- >>> To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@commons.apache.org >>> For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@commons.apache.org >>> >>> >> >> --------------------------------------------------------------------- >> To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@commons.apache.org >> For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@commons.apache.org >> >> > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@commons.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@commons.apache.org > > -- Thank you, Gary http://garygregory.wordpress.com/ http://garygregory.com/ http://people.apache.org/~ggregory/ http://twitter.com/GaryGregory --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@commons.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@commons.apache.org
