On Jan 6, 2006, at 11:10 AM, David Jencks wrote:
Either I don't understand what is being proposed or I think it is a
recipe for disaster.
My past experience with open source projects leads me to believe
that having more than one main development area that is leading to
a release is likely to cause only confusion, not progress towards
functionality.
In my opinion if we call head 2.0 and start adding JEE 5 features
to it, there will never be any more j2ee 1.4 releases with added
functionality. We will have a couple bug fix 1.0 releases, then a
year or so while we try to finish JEE 5. I don't think this is
acceptable.
Amen!
We can't go from two years of development on 1.x with little to no
user interaction then abandon it after the first release and go back
into the development hole. We need to follow through on Geronimo 1.x
for a few release cycles, get some user feedback, learn the lessons
we need to learn for a while, *then* start Geronimo 2.0.
Now is not the time to turn our focus to the next shinny ball, now is
the time to focus on users of 1.x as they will need our dedication
before they can bring it into production.
There is my $0.02.
-David
