So who wants to stand for election as the new chair?
Cheers,
Greg Trasuk.
On May 13, 2014, at 8:46 AM, Bryan Thompson <br...@systap.com> wrote:
> Sounds good.
>
>> On May 13, 2014, at 8:25 AM, Rafał Krupiński
>> <rafal.krupin...@sorcersoft.com> wrote:
>>
>> Dnia wtorek, 13 maja 2014 08:11:21 Bryan Thompson pisze:
>>> Is the name change a requirement for a 3.0? The problem is that this will
>>> break compatibility making it extremely difficult to establish performance
>>> in existing applications while preserving the ability to rollback to a
>>> known good code base. I would have to give a -1 to this. We need to
>>> validate the release against running systems before changing the
>>> namespaces. If that means keeping this a 2.x release, that's fine.
>>
>> Change namespaces can be made in a compatible way. There could be additional
>> jars with empty classes in the old packages that would just extend the
>> classes
>> in the new packages, like below:
>>
>> //some-module.jar
>> org.apache.river.SimeClass{
>> //class moved from net.jini
>> }
>>
>> //some-module-compat.jar (that depends on some-module.jar)
>> net.jini.SomeClass extends org.apache.river.SomeClass{
>> //empty class
>> }
>>
>> In order to migrate to the new version, you'd need to replace the actual
>> module and add the compatibility module.
>>
>> Regards
>> Rafał
