Hi Jörg
2013/2/20 Jörg Schaible <joerg.schai...@scalaris.com> > Hi Benedikt, > > Benedikt Ritter wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > I'd like to discuss how the development of [BeanUtils] and [BeanUtils2] > > can be continued. > > > > The last release of BeanUtils (1.8.3) is now nearly 3 years ago and there > > are 92 open issues in JIRA. > > OTOH we've put quiet some effort into [BeanUtils2]. There are some issues > > that have to be addressed* but the API is in a good shape. > > But [BeanUtils2] is also a complete redesign of the API that is binary > > incompatible with [BeanUtils]. > > > > Keeping this in mind I propose the following: > > - promote [BeanUtils2] to proper; move it to a 2.0 branch in the > beanutils > > svn subtree.** > > - fix all issues that can be fixed without breaking BC in [BeanUtils] to > > push out a last bug fix release for users that don't want to swtich to a > > new API. > > - Make clear that BeanUtils 1.8.4 will be the last release of the 1.x > > line. > > > > WDYT? > > Sounds perfectly reasonable. If you have only maintenance stuff 1.8.4 is > fine. If you intent to add new features for the 1.x line, you might better > call it 1.9.0 after all this years. > Okay, I'll try to review the open issues this weekend. > > > > > Benedikt > > > > * Some JavaDoc is still missing and we have to take a look at the > caching. > > AFAIK WeakHashMap is not the best choice for an in-memory-cache. We'll > > discuss this in a separate thread. > > ** I don't know the exact formal process for this. What has to be done to > > promote a component to proper? Does there have to be a formal vote by the > > PMC? > > Not sure for this special case either. Actually you're not promoting a new > component. However, you may look into the archives, IIRC Simo had the same > case for the last major release of digester. > I'll ask Simo what he has done for digister. Thanks a lot! Benedikt > > Cheers, > Jörg > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@commons.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@commons.apache.org > > -- http://people.apache.org/~britter/ http://www.systemoutprintln.de/ http://twitter.com/BenediktRitter http://github.com/britter
