+1, thanks JB -- Andrea Cosentino ---------------------------------- Apache Camel PMC Chair Apache Karaf Committer Apache Servicemix PMC Member Email: [email protected] Twitter: @oscerd2 Github: oscerd
On Monday, March 9, 2020, 06:30:06 AM GMT+1, Jean-Baptiste Onofre <[email protected]> wrote: Hi everyone, Following the discussion about the "future" of ServiceMix, I would like to propose the following plan: 0. Latest ServiceMix releases In order to give time to our users to "migrate" and move forward, I think it makes sense to cut latest release and announce it would be the latest one. In the coming two weeks, I will submit to vote: - ServiceMix Bundles release - ServiceMix 8 release (containing just version update) - Check if some spec bundles have to be released 1. ServiceMix Bundles move. As said, I started to work on a mechanism storing the bundles descriptor. I started an improvement on pax-url-wrap about that and the descriptors store would be new Karaf git repo (not need of an individual vote, we can directly use the descriptor). As usage, it would look like: bundle:install wrap:http://gitbox.apache.org/repos/asf/karaf-bundles/mybundle.json <http://gitbox.apache.org/repos/asf/karaf-bundles/mybundle.json> Where the descriptor mybundle.json contains the location of the "base" code, the statements, resources definition, etc (all that we have in the ServiceMix bundles currently). For a community standpoint, I would propose to move interested ServiceMix PMC as Karaf committer straight forward (I have to start a vote on the Karaf community about that). Of course, if the committer is committer and active, he will become Karaf PMC member. The reason why I don’t want to just move the ServiceMix PMC as Karaf PMC is that lot of ServiceMix PMC members are inactive now and I don’t want to "pollute" the Karaf PMC. 2. Spec. Last week I sent a message on the Karaf mailing list related to spec (especially with JDK 9+). As explained in this thread, Karaf should provide spec features to be decoupled from JDK. In order to provide these spec features, Karaf needs spec bundles, some spec are already bundles, but some specs bundles are provided by Apache Geronimo or ServiceMix. The Spec OSGi Locator could be a module of Karaf itself (as it’s embedded in the Karaf distributions). About the spec bundles, we can follow the pax-url-wrap way with the json descriptor. 3. Once ServiceMix 8.0.0 is out, I would like to create a document explaining how to "migrate" from ServiceMix to Karaf "ecosystem". The purpose is to provide smooth path to ServiceMix users. I was thinking about a Karaf Integration distribution (as stated in the first discussion thread), but some of you said it’s not necessary. 4. Once those actions done, we will start a vote to move ServiceMix to attic. In term of timeline, if you agree, I will move forward with ServiceMix releases this week. About the "enhanced" pax-url-wrap, I would need couple of weeks to finalize and polish this up. Wisely, we can plan to start the move to attic in couple of months. Thoughts ? Regards JB
