Henri, On Fri, 2008-03-21 at 19:14 -0700, Henri Yandell wrote:
> We need to get the damn thing out. :) I think it is also worth having someone actively working on this who is part of the commit team. I appreciate there are zillions of trendy new annotation-based packages, but there is a role for a builder-based package, and it would be good if Commons CLI was the acknowledged de facto standard. To do this it need to be steadily active as a project. This means one or two people committed to processing issues as and when they arrive. Starting mid-April I can get back to having a look at Commons CLI2 for Groovy and Gant, which is likely to create a sequence of issues. As long as there are a few people working on it there is a small community who can keep the energy going, then I think it may be possible to breathe life back into Comons CLI. My work practice will be to take a branch of Commons CLI using either Bazaar or Git -- I don't think Mercurial has proper Subversion support as yet, so is not an option. This will almost certainly be a branch without previous history to avoid having to process 639959 commits! I will then keep a Subversion Head mirror and a personal branch of changes to create patches. I would publish these branches and cross merge with anyone else actively working on this. So this solves the problem of needing Subversion commit access to progress. However, it does require someone with commit access to triage and process patches on an active basis. > > i would volunteer to work on the issues that prevent a release. > > In no particular order: > > * Solve, or recommend moving to 2.1, all the 2.0 issues in JIRA. Commons CLI Trunk Head compiles and installs to my local Maven repository just fine using Maven 2, i.e. "mvn install" does exactly what it should. The problem I guess is knowing what is 2.0 and what is 2.1. As an outsider looking in without looking too hard I would say there is 2.0.0-SNAPSHOT and nothing else. > * Make sure M2 is happily building the site, distribution etc. I am checking the site building, but it is going to take a while as it seems to need downloading half the universe of all jar files :-( > * Make sure the checkstyle/pmd/findbugs aren't full of problems. Pass on this I'm afraid, I am not sure what needs to be done. -- Russel. ==================================================== Dr Russel Winder Partner Concertant LLP t: +44 20 7193 9203 41 Buckmaster Road, f: +44 8700 516 084 London SW11 1EN, UK. m: +44 7770 465 077 --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
