Re: About refactoring

2016-05-05 Thread Miles Teg
Dear Ray and David, Thank you very much for the quick and valuable replies :) Best Regards, Miles On Tue, May 3, 2016 at 12:44 AM, David Jencks < david_jen...@yahoo.com.invalid> wrote: > First of all, what Ray said :-) > > Due to the nature of Felix, where there are generally “subprojects” of o

Re: About refactoring

2016-05-02 Thread David Jencks
First of all, what Ray said :-) Due to the nature of Felix, where there are generally “subprojects” of one or a very few bundles implementing an OSGI specification, any refactoring efforts are almost certain to be confined to one of these subprojects. I think I’ve been the main contributor to

Re: About refactoring

2016-05-02 Thread Raymond Auge
The first thing I would offer is that the felix project is an OSGi project and with that it follows OSGi Semantic Versioning ( https://www.osgi.org/wp-content/uploads/SemanticVersioning.pdf) The effect of semantic versioning to API design is dramatic in that APIs are designed to be concise and coh

About refactoring

2016-05-02 Thread Miles Teg
Hello Everyone, I'm part of a team trying to analyse the effects of refactoring on large codebases. In this regard, we are analysing the Felix project and its JIRA tickets. We would like to know: i) Do you follow a particular conventions for changes that are refactorings: e.g. special ticket type