+1 for skipping 2.8 and releasing 3.0 end of this year. @Sergei: let us to discuss how I could help with 2.0 TCK.
Regards, Andrei. > -----Original Message----- > From: Daniel Kulp [mailto:dk...@apache.org] > Sent: Montag, 25. März 2013 19:19 > To: dev@cxf.apache.org > Subject: Thoughts about a 2.8 release (or not)… > > > We're getting close to April which normally would be the next release (2.8). > However, looking things over, I'm not sure it makes sense at this time. > Looking at trunk, the only major change (which is admittedly a big one), is > updating the JAX-RS 2.0 stuff from m10 to the RC level. However, it's not > complete yet. Almost everything else has been back ported to 2.7.x. The > other major chunk of work that is happening is on the wss4j2 branch, but > that isn't ready for for release yet either. (and has some backwards compat > issues to resolve if it would go on a 2.x line) > > According to the agreements Apache has with Oracle, we really cannot > "release" code that doesn't pass the TCK (which the 2.0 works would not). > Technically, we should not have released 2.7.0 as a release. We can release > things like "tech previews" or "beta" or similar, but not a full release. > Since > we are working on trying to renew the agreements, Oracle is paying > attention to us pretty closely right now. > > So, what am I getting at? In order to release 2.8 in a few weeks, we'd > either > need to back out all the JAX-RS 2.0 stuff to 1.1 level OR everyone jump in > full > force and get it to pass the TCK. I really don't see either happening. > Backing > out to 1.1 would be silly and the 2.0 TCK stuff is a ton of work. Thus, my > suggestion would be to skip a big release this April and concentrate on bigger > things for our Oct/Nov release. Possibly make that a CXF 3.0 release instead > of 2.8 where we can clean up some stuff, break a few things (like change the > couple API's that currently force WSDL4J on JAX-RS users), etc… We can > incorporate the WSS4J2 changes as part of this as well. If we go this > route, > we could likely start a series of "beta" releases or similar in June or so to > get > people looking at it and testing with it. > > Any thoughts? > > -- > Daniel Kulp > dk...@apache.org - http://dankulp.com/blog Talend Community Coder - > http://coders.talend.com
