I assume you mean Lang for the 3.0 release. There's no strong theme yet - between each release Commons components tend to have a slumber period where bugs are fixed and things build up. Lang is in that period post the 2.4. Matt's been working on bits, I've done a bit, but the moment where the full list in 3.0 is looked at and a bunch either closed or moved over to 3.x hasn't happened yet.
Main ones are: * JDK 1.5+. What things in JDK 1.5 are worth having common utilities around. * 3.0, so removing deprecated code is possible. If we want to deprecate anything else then a 2.5 is feasible in which we quickly deprecate those things. Items in the .time package are a common one there, some of the stuff is a pain to maintain compared to telling people to use JODA Time. * LangTwo 1.0. This is for the big backwards incompatible bits. I deleted the first attempt after 2.4 was released because it was easy enough to repeat. IRC channel would be lovely. I've nudged for such in the past but not had a lot of interest. And of course now I'm behind a firewall where I can't access IRC in the day when someone brings it up! :) Hen On Thu, Jan 29, 2009 at 10:13 AM, John Feminella <johnf.public+li...@dispatcher.distilledb.com> wrote: > hello all, > > I'm interested in getting my feet wet with Commons (specifically, *.lang > and *.math). I use various snippets of it heavily in my development day > job and I figured this would be a good way to give a little something > back. I was planning on just poking through the JIRA and writing patches > for some easy targets, but I have a few questions: > > 1.) I lurked for a little bit on the mailing list, and one thing I'm > particularly interested in is the discussion about migrating Commons to > JDK 1.5. Is this an official sub-project yet? If so, is there a way to > sign up for that? > > 2.) Can someone point me to a document that highlights the targets for > the 3.0 release (if that exists), or maybe briefly explain what's going > into v3? It's difficult for me to understand the thematic thrust of 3.0 > just by doing JIRA queries and seeing the open issues. > > 3.) Finally, does Commons (or its associated subprojects) have an IRC > channel where I could mosey over to and talk with other active > contributors? > > Thanks for your help! > > ~ jf > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@commons.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@commons.apache.org > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@commons.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@commons.apache.org
