A while back we discussed about migration from Blueprint to SCR and we all agreed that it was a nice thing to do. The question is how to do it, without making maintenance hard and also without taking ages to deliver this new feature.
I think that this should be done in 3 steps: i) Migrate from Blueprint to SCR. ii) Define features for "Aries Blueprint" iii) Make Blueprint Optional. The first step could be done as part of a Karaf 3.1.0 release. Since all changes are internal and the only thing that would be required is to install SCR by default, it doesn't have to be a major release (in fact it could even be a micro release). The benefit of this approach is that we will not have to maintain an other branch that would require extra maintenance, until we are ready for step (ii). Once we have SCR in our Karaf 3 branch, we can define features for aries blueprint and wait for the rest of the projects of the eco system to pickup those features, were necessary. When camel, cxf, activemq have picked up the changes in our features and have performed a release or two, we can proceed to the final step and have Blueprint not installed by default Thoughts? -- Ioannis Canellos Blog: http://iocanel.blogspot.com Twitter: iocanel
