I fully agree with your sense of urgency around getting the GA out. In every project there comes a time to shoot the engineers and start production.
On Sat, Nov 30, 2019 at 2:18 AM Oleg Kalnichevski <ol...@apache.org> wrote: > On Fri, 2019-11-29 at 14:44 -0800, Ryan Schmitt wrote: > > There is one thing I was hoping to do before the GA release, which is > > to > > build support for the Apache 5 client as an HTTP backend for the AWS > > Java > > SDK V2 (which supports pluggable HTTP clients) and run their full > > suite of > > integration tests. Unfortunately, the time leading up to re:Invent is > > extremely busy around here, so I don't think the timing works out if > > we > > want to get 5.0 GA out this year. This is fine, I can always perform > > this > > testing later, there's just a higher risk of a compatibility issue > > (particularly between core and client) preventing any newly > > discovered bugs > > from being fixed. > > > > Hi Ryan, > > There will inevitably be bugs. The problem is that the longer HC > remains in BETA the longer a substantial part of its potential user > base will not be using it and finding those bugs. We are presently not > gaining much by dragging out the API freeze in my opinion. > > I do not mind delaying 5.0 GA for a good reason but I am reluctant to > do it for another round of pointless class renaming. The previous round > cost us several months of wasted project time. > > Oleg > > > > Since the SDK is open source [1], in principle any contributor could > > perform this task and run whatever integration tests are open source. > > (I > > don't currently know whether we have additional test coverage that is > > unpublished.) > > > > [1] https://github.com/aws/aws-sdk-java-v2 > > > > On Tue, Nov 26, 2019 at 5:55 AM Oleg Kalnichevski <ol...@apache.org> > > wrote: > > > > > Folks > > > > > > How do feel about releasing HttpCore 5.0 GA next week and > > > HttpClient > > > 5.0 shortly after? > > > > > > In the next development phase I imagine we could backport some of > > > the > > > 5.0 code to 4.x. HttpCore 4.x and HttpClient 4.x could benefit from > > > better connection pool implementations from 5.0. > > > > > > Oleg > > > > > > > > > ----------------------------------------------------------------- > > > ---- > > > To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@hc.apache.org > > > For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@hc.apache.org > > > > > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@hc.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@hc.apache.org > >
