On Sat 4 Nov 2017 at 12:20, Stephen Connolly < stephen.alan.conno...@gmail.com> wrote:
> The past two days, Hervé, Robert and I have been discussing our next steps. > > I think we have a semi-consensus which I want to bring back to the list: > > We keep 3.5.x as a stable branch with critical bug fixes only > > We switch master to 4.0.0 and start to burn down a release scope. > > 4.0.0 will not change the pom modelVersion > > The 4.0.0 scope should probably be: > > Required: > * drop Java 7, switch codebase to Java 8 idioms (while maintaining binary > api compatibility for plugins) > * specify the classloader behaviour and fix impl to align with spec (may > need a plugin flag to allow plugins to opt in to spec behaviour) > * specify the extension spec > * allow limited mutation of the runtime model (reducing transitive > dependencies for consumers within the reactor, only for plugin goals that > declare intent) use case: shade plugin > * better CI integration hooks > * nice error message for newer pom modelVersion > > Optional: > * (damn I forgot, maybe Robert remembers) > * incremental build * concurrent safe local repo cache > -- > Sent from my phone > -- Sent from my phone
