On 12/12/2009, Henri Yandell <flame...@gmail.com> wrote: > Updating status again. > > * 103 resolved issues out of 161. From Sep 6 we resolved 38 issues and > had 30 new ones. > * 78 contributors involved in the resolved issues, 80 patches and 511 > comments. > * I believe we now have 3 issues that would benefit from JDK 1.6. Sun > have "end of life"d Java 1.5, though presumably there are other > vendors who haven't. Personally I still lean towards becoming 1.6 > dependent.
Which are these? Could LANG still be built to be 1.5 compatible, apart from the code that uses the 1.6 features? Seems to me that going from a minimum of Java 1.2 for 2.x to Java 1.6 for lang 3.x is a huge leap. > * Still lots to work on. Here's a short list of very approachable > issues (be they simple or tricky): > > https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LANG-288 - bit of original code > to do. Fairly involved. > https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LANG-521 - support "2." in NumberUtils. > https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LANG-426 - possible new feature > for StrTokenizer. > https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LANG-405 - needs unit test/bugfixing > https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LANG-403 - fun bit of code > > Collections continues to look inactive and I've got my eye on a few > pieces there for 'rescuing' into Lang. I especially think the > Comparator bits would be a better fit in Lang. (LANG-532). > > Major changes since Sep: > > * Package name changed to lang3 > * Maven groupId changed (org.apache.commons) > * Reverting of EqualsBuilder to not treat BigDecimal specially > > > https://issues.apache.org/jira/secure/IssueNavigator.jspa?reset=true&&pid=12310481&updated%3Aafter=6%2FSep%2F09&status=5&status=6&sorter/field=updated&sorter/order=DESC > > Notable on-going work: > > * Validate being overhauled > * New concurrent package being developed > > > https://issues.apache.org/jira/secure/IssueNavigator.jspa?reset=true&&pid=12310481&fixfor=12311714&resolution=-1&sorter/field=priority&sorter/order=DESC > > Hen > > > On Sun, Sep 6, 2009 at 3:37 PM, Henri Yandell <flame...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Thought I'd share the status of Lang 3.0. > > > > * 65 resolved issues out of 131. Basically around 50% of the way there. > > * 65 contributors involved, with 55 patches and 340 comments. Thanks > > to everyone out there for the work so far. > > * First commit on 25 Mar 2008, so about 18 months along now. That was > > one week after the last release (2.4). > > > > Ideally... March 2010 would be a great time to see 3.0 come out. :) > > > > I've started moving some issues to 3.x that don't have anything > > actionable. Things like "Maybe add a RegexUtils?" etc. Basically > > ideas. > > > > There's one JDK 1.6 dependent issue in there. WIth a circa March 2010 > > release, I think that's a fine dependency given that 1.5 goes end of > > life in Nov 2008. > > > > There are a good range of simple and complex issues in there to work on. > > > > Hen > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > 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
