Robert Burrell Donkin ha scritto:
without noel, you would need to persuade other developers who are not
familiar with trunk to +1 rather than +0. reducing the volume of code
which must be reviewed would reduce the task involved in review and so
increase the chances of independent review. releasing code as
libraries rather than a monolithic application also reduces the effort
required to review a release.
I'm not 100% sure but my understanding is that at least me, Norman and
Bernd are +1 about releasing a milestone from trunk. I think what we
miss is just a release manager, not the 3 +1 ;-)
i would really like to be able to release a lightweight, embeddable
SMTP protocol handling library. there is lots of interested in
lightweight embeddable protocol handling libraries and since it's a
library and not a server, then arguments about compliant default
configurations would be irrelevant. lots of people are interested in
fail-fast and releasing it in a library would help focus discussion in
a positive way.
in the medium term, i can see big advantages in eventually being able
to maintain SMTP separately. the same engine could be used in
different versions of JAMES.
I will probably have updates in the next months on a related issue.
Most of the code written in trunk has been written while v2.3 was prepared.
Most code that was simply backportable have been backported at that time.
Most changes that required API changes or changes in services/coupling
components structure was confined to trunk for the following major release.
Some of the code in trunk has been written 3 years ago... we should probably
rename "trunk" to "decanter" ;-)
yeh: that was the problem. i think that we now need to decant the code
from trunk into libraries so that it can be used in 2.x.
This is my point: *most* of that code require altered version of service
interfaces or core api. If you extract libraries from trunk they won't
work in 2.3.
Stefano
---------------------------------------------------------------------
To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
