James Mansion wrote:
Gordon Sim wrote:
Based on past experience I think its best to wait until the final spec
is actually published before getting too concerned about an
implementation plan.
Its not long 'til then though - but I was actually more interested in
what the process will be, and who will manage and execute it.
For me the first part of the process is a protocol independent API and
some thinking around how to support multiple protocols in the broker
(allowing messages published over one protocol to be delivered over
another etc).
Another important aspect is ensuring that adding support for 1.0 doesn't
break previously supported versions.
Is this likely to be a 'show me the code' effort, or a 'show me the
requirement, show me the plan, show me the design, show me the
resourcing, show me the code' sort of thing?
At the broadest level the requirement will be the 1.0 spec, obviously
there may be parts that can be attacked incrementally adding support for
optional or less commonly used features after the core is in place etc.
I imagine that there will be some discussion nearer the time about how
to break up the tasks and who does what. I suspect the details will vary
by language and with the amount of interest shown.
I myself plan to spend some time in the coming weeks thinking about the
API question and will be posting my thoughts and comments to the list
along with any patches that help explain the ideas. We have a great
group of people on this list and the user list and hopefully we can all
feed in ideas and get a very satisfactory result.
We are now in the closing down stages of the 0.5 release. Ideally the
next release will include a protocol independent API in all supported
languages. Once that is out then hopefully the final 1.0 AMQP spec will
have been published and steps towards that can be discussed.
Qpid isn't entirely a 'spare time' project is it? Who does the heavy
lifting?
There are now many active commiters from different organisations (see
http://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/qpid/People).
(It *is* clearly spare time and 'for interest' for me - I've been
playing while commuting and that won't change.)
Thank you very much for investing your time in the project, it is great
to have your interest!
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