Would it be possible to release 6.0 now and release Mark's patches as 6.1 or 7.0? I'm concerned it may be quite a long time before his patches are committed since they are not actively being reviewed and there is no activity on them for the past couple weeks.
There is little downside to frequent releases in my experience. Infrequent releases on the other hand can be a source of frustration as it means it can be quite difficult to use the code that has been committed. This is the exact reason the node.js community was splintered and the io.js fork was created. While end users can easily build from source it can become extremely difficult when there are multiple transitive dependencies relying on the library. Users end up having to maintain patched versions not only of BCEL but of the libraries that depend on BCEL which means there can be quite a bit of overhead. As the length of time between releases grows the number of custom patches each user has to separately maintain in each library depending on BCEL grows. Right now it has been nine years. Thanks, Ben On Feb 10, 2015 1:53 AM, "Ben McCann" <b...@benmccann.com> wrote: > Great, thanks for the update! > > Btw, for those not familiar with which issues those are, here's a list of > the ones Mark raised that are not yet resolved: > https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/BCEL-79 > https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/BCEL-195 > https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/BCEL-196 > https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/BCEL-197 > https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/BCEL-198 > https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/BCEL-199 > https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/BCEL-200 > https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/BCEL-201 > https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/BCEL-202 > https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/BCEL-205 > https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/BCEL-206 > https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/BCEL-208 > https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/BCEL-209 > > Thanks! > -Ben > > > > > > > > > > On Sun, Feb 8, 2015 at 11:32 PM, Emmanuel Bourg <ebo...@apache.org> wrote: > >> Le 09/02/2015 06:29, chengas123 a écrit : >> >> > BCEL really needs the 6.0 release to be cut or it will no longer be >> > compatible with any supported version of Java. Would anyone be able to >> cut a >> > new release? >> >> I will once the issues raised by Marks Roberts are addressed. >> >> Emmanuel Bourg >> >> >> --------------------------------------------------------------------- >> To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@commons.apache.org >> For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@commons.apache.org >> >> > > > -- > about.me/benmccann >
