Hi, Am 11.09.2016 um 23:03 schrieb Karl Heinz Marbaise: > So that was my suggestion to increase the minimum JDK versions which is > needed to run/build RAT/Tentacles/Whiskers to JDK 6...make at least one > release and move forward to JDK 7 make another release and move forward > to JDK 8...This means you have always a base release on which you can > make bug fix (or if really needed backports) releases for the > appropriate JDK requirements...
+1 for that strategy and retirement of JDK5. > Not to talk about JDK 9 next year (which is not very far in the future)... > > Apart from that Tentacles as well as Whiskers need releases at all... > cause I can't see any release on Maven Central of them... > > Tentacles shows 0.1-SNAPSHOT ? (if the bottom line is related 2012?) ? > Whiskers shows 0.1-SNAPSHOT (last updated 2013 ?) > > For RAT that 0.12 has been released about three months ago, but before > that it has taken 2 years for a release ? I think this is the problem > not the users... To my mind the problem is much more general: tentacles and whisker were developed mainly by the former project lead (sorry if that's not the correct wording). After he left the code base was left as-is ... I'm unaware of any real users of the SNAPSHOTs which resulted in the current state of the subprojects. RAT was mainly in bugfix-mode since other ASF projects requested newer features or created bug tickets in Jira. Therefore I was quite happy to have the gradle plugin contributed. The project lacks active developers and an overall strategy on what to do and how to reach it - why don't we develop a strategy how to reach 1.0.0 for RAT? I'd love to see it with a current JDK and a gradle plugin integrated. @karlheinz: thanks for your input and fresh ideas! Phil
