Re: [bcel] perspective?

2015-10-06 Thread Stephan Herrmann
Thanks, Mark, This is very helpful information! Please don't read my questions as demanding. I know the tragedy of the commons. As an Eclipse committer I'm used to time-boxed releases, but I understand that things work differently at Apache. OK. After playing a bit with an RC of BCEL 6.0 I

Re: [bcel] perspective?

2015-10-06 Thread Mark Thomas
On 06/10/2015 22:30, Stephan Herrmann wrote: > Thanks, Mark, > > This is very helpful information! > > Please don't read my questions as demanding. > I know the tragedy of the commons. > > As an Eclipse committer I'm used to time-boxed releases, but I understand > that things work differently

[bcel] perspective?

2015-10-04 Thread Stephan Herrmann
Hi, The Object Teams project[1] has been successfully using BCEL for around 13 years now. As Java 8 becomes widely used, we obviously can no longer use BCEL 5.2. For a while it seemed as if BCEL was dead, but I was happy to see more activity as of late. This now puts as on a crossroad between

Re: [bcel] perspective?

2015-10-04 Thread Mark Thomas
On 04/10/2015 17:56, Stephan Herrmann wrote: > Hence, my primary question: can we realistically expect a release of > BCEL 6.0 any time soon? Define soon. Progress is being made. The more folks that contribute (particularly patches and reviews of proposed patches) the faster that progress will