+1, we have lots of good features that shouldn't be held up for something still in relatively early design stage. Release early and release often!
When the time is right, someone other than me should volunteer to be the release manager for 2.2.0. It would be good to have someone else go through the process and validate the Release Workflow [1] steps. - Steve [1] https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/DAFFODIL/Release+Workflow On 08/06/2018 02:55 PM, Mike Beckerle wrote: > The BLOB (Binary Large Object) feature is still in the preliminary design > phase. > > > Other valuable features of 2.2.0 have already been added including layering > support, and the message-streaming API changes. In addition some rather > important bug fixes have been added, specifically I'm referring to the fix > for MS Excel CSV format bug, but there are many others also. > > > I'm not suggesting 2.2.0 is ready for release quite yet. We should get the > work on separators and separator-suppression into it, which is still in > review and will take a bit more work. I'm suggesting that adding another > major new feature to it is unwise. > > > Discussion? > > > -mike beckerle >
