It's a volunteer-driven "scratch-your-own-itch" ASF project. If we, the contributors, want to develop a 1.8 branch, then the ASF way is to let us do so.
Another group of contributors can work toward 2.0 if that's their need and desire. Or not. I'm willing to put in some documentation work if that becomes necessary. On Thu, May 28, 2015 at 12:02 PM, Jacob Champlin <jac...@rentec.com> wrote: > > > On 05/28/2015 11:33 AM, Mike Kienenberger wrote: >> >> On Thu, May 28, 2015 at 11:21 AM, Jacob Champlin <jac...@rentec.com> >> wrote: >>> >>> >>> On 05/28/2015 10:48 AM, Mike Kienenberger wrote: >>> I would like to point out that we are very happy running Velocity 1.7, in >>> fact there is not a single new feature we want. So we agree >>> its a stable mature product that doesn't need a lot of changes. Our >>> problem >>> is the world around it has been changing, and Velocity isn't >>> keeping up. Apache Commons in particular. Looks like its easy to go to >>> latest lang, and digester, but collections is a different beast. So >>> velocity >>> isn't even keeping up with its dependencies from the same organization. >>> Not >>> to mention I am sure the code could benefit from newer java features. >> >> >> And I'm in the same boat. >> >> I don't need velocity to evolve. I just need it to keep up and >> remain backward-compatible so that it can continue to be used as other >> software packages are upgraded. >> >> I'm going to make time "soon" to try once again to work forward from >> my 1.3.1 environment up the chain of releases to 1.7 while maintaining >> backward compatibility. I'm far more interested in a 1.8 maintenance >> release than a 2.0 release. >> > > So is it possible to create a 1.8 branch from 1.7 in the ASF world? I would > be happy to contribute our changes to that. > > However, my fear is this project needs more than another branch and some > code changes. There would be a lot of documentation work > that frankly we are not likely to put effort into that. I also think it may > need to give up the 5 year 2.0 dreams. > > -Jacob > > >> --------------------------------------------------------------------- >> To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@velocity.apache.org >> For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@velocity.apache.org >> > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@velocity.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@velocity.apache.org > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@velocity.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@velocity.apache.org
