Hi David, Under the 'converter' umbrella in Felix there are 3 subprojects besides the converter itself: * serializer * schematizer * persister
I personally think it would be absolutely fine to leave them in Apache Felix. They build atop the converter. The converter API itself doesn't change in any way, so these components can just stay where they are... Does that make sense to you? Cheers, David On Mon, 10 May 2021 at 11:24, David Leangen (OSGi) <o...@leangen.net> wrote: > Hey David, > > Thanks as always for all your great contributions. > > I was just wondering about the Serializer. Although I have not put any > work into for a while (including releasing, which I have not yet managed to > get set up to do), I at least still use it, and I still think it is a > useful, even necessary tool. Unless you know of something else that does > the job? > > Cheers, > =David > > What one programmer can do in one month, two programmers can do in two > months. (Fred Brooks) > > On May 7, 2021 18:18 +0900, dav...@apache.org, wrote: > > Hi JB, > > > > Some of the contributors of the Converter at Felix are already committers > > at the Eclipse project [5]. > > Others can just create PRs for any changes to the > > https://github.com/osgi/osgi/ project. As it's an opensource project you > > can earn committer karma the usual open-source way. > > I have done a quick commit grep and found that of the 200 commits to the > > converter there are 13 made by people who are not already committers at > the > > OSGi project at Eclipse. > > > > I have also checked with Eclipse around releasing the component. Any > fixes > > that don't impact the API, i.e. micro-version releases can be done from > an > > Eclipse project pretty much any time. Fixes that do impact the API would > > also need a specification update. > > > > Best regards, > > > > David > > > > [5] https://projects.eclipse.org/projects/technology.osgi/who > > > > On Thu, 6 May 2021 at 16:23, Jean-Baptiste Onofre <j...@nanthrax.net> > wrote: > > > > > Hi David, > > > > > > It makes sense and it would be more "consistent" to have a single > > > repository. > > > > > > As Converter is part of the "spec", it makes sense to be located at > > > Eclipse. > > > > > > My only "concern" is about the contributions/contributors on Felix > > > Converter. > > > Will all Felix committers be able to change/maintain code at Eclipse > (the > > > code coming from Felix Converter) ? > > > > > > Regards > > > JB > > > > > > > Le 6 mai 2021 à 17:17, dav...@apache.org a écrit : > > > > > > > > Hi all, > > > > > > > > As most would have noticed, OSGi has moved to the Eclipse Foundation > [1] > > > > and all the future OSGi specification work will happen there [2]. > > > > > > > > The Converter that's in the Felix codebase is an implementation of > the > > > OSGi > > > > Converter specification [3]. As Converter is a 'util' specification, > OSGi > > > > also provides an implementation with the API. There could be other > > > > implementations as well, this is similar to what is done with Push > > > Streams > > > > and the Service Tracker. > > > > > > > > The initial implementation of the Converter Util at OSGi was based > on the > > > > same codebase as the Converter at Felix. In effect it's a fork. Over > time > > > > the two forks have started to diverge a little, mostly due to > different > > > > fixes being applied to both of them. > > > > > > > > Now that OSGi is an Eclipse project and all of the OSGi technology at > > > > Eclipse is developed as ordinary opensource projects with the ASL2 > > > license > > > > I think it would be good if we could collapse these 2 forks into one > > > again. > > > > Because the Converter is the implementation shipped by OSGi as part > of > > > its > > > > spec API (into [4]), we can't really remove the implementation from > the > > > > OSGi codebase. > > > > So I would like to discuss removing the Converter from the Felix > > > codebase, > > > > so that the codebase can live on in a single location which would be: > > > > > > > > https://github.com/osgi/osgi/tree/main/org.osgi.util.converter/src/org/osgi/util/converter > > > > > > > > Obviously this would mean to consolidate all the bugfixes that went > into > > > > its Felix codebase into the combined one. > > > > Combining the codebases into one would mean that all users get the > > > benefit > > > > from work done to the implementation by both communities. > > > > > > > > I hope that the Felix community would be open to this. > > > > > > > > Best regards, > > > > > > > > David Bosschaert > > > > > > > > [1] > > > > > > > > https://newsroom.eclipse.org/news/announcements/osgi-alliance-transfers-governance-osgi-specifications-open-source-software > > > > [2] https://projects.eclipse.org/projects/technology.osgi > > > > [3] > > > > https://docs.osgi.org/specification/osgi.cmpn/7.0.0/util.converter.html > > > > [4] https://repo1.maven.org/maven2/org/osgi/org.osgi.util.converter/ > > > > > > >
