On Thu, Aug 28, 2008 at 5:59 AM, David Crossley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Tim Williams wrote: >> David Crossley wrote: >> > We intend to "update" the version of Cocoon used by Forrest >> > to be Cocoon-2.1 branch. >> > >> > Please vote. >> >> I reckon I've missed discussion on why 2.1.x vs the released 2.2? >> It's not intuitive why we would "upgrade" to an outdated version. I >> saw FOR-1016 but I didn't see what the show-stopper was. A search >> turned up this[1] thread with Thorsten concerned about "pass-through" >> - but I'm not sure what that means. > > That is the ability that lets our sitemaps work. > If a match is not found then it passes through to the > next sitemap. That ability was in our old Cocoon-2.2 trunk, > and we were not sure it was backported to Cocoon-2.1 branch. > It was and it works for us. > > As for the background, please see the recent "Proposal" thread. > It directs you to > http://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/FOR-1017 > and to the old discussion: > http://marc.info/?t=116969435600001
Thanks David, I've read this and still don't see why *not* 2.2. From all that discussion the only problem I see is the CLI - Thorsten is currently shopping for a Member to champion his droids lab ATM that could likely be suitable for that. I assume the other advantages to upgrading (i.e. XMLFileModule updates, etc.) are applicable to both versions anyway. I'm trusting that it makes sense, but I suggest again that because 2.2 is the more obvious upgrade path, we'd do well to state explicitly what's keeping us from it and essentially "reverting" to 2.1. As I understand it, we've been using a variant of 2.2 for over 3 years now and the next version of Forrest would potentially have "upgrade to 2.1" listed in the changes. I personally think that's just odd enough to deserve something more explicit in the voting process than long references to discussions that weren't exactly fully conclusive. --tim
