Hi Benedikt, many thanks for your kind introduction. :-) I also think jumping into the code will do most, that's where I start for now. What I have seen so far looks quite promising, especially the test coverage, hence it's maybe hard for me to find big improvements. ... you mentioned a requirement for BU2 is to provide an equal set of features as the standard BU. I think searching for corresponding features gaps during my "exercise" might be beneficial somehow - or are they already captured somewhere?
Thank you so far. Regards, André 2014-02-11 16:58 GMT+01:00 Benedikt Ritter <brit...@apache.org>: > Hello André, > > nice that you're interested in BU2, welcome to this list. > > > 2014-02-11 12:26 GMT+01:00 André Diermann <andre.dierm...@gmail.com>: > > > Hi, > > > > I stumbled upon the BeanUtils2 project which looks quite interessing to > me. > > Do you have any future plans? (When) Will it replace the BeanUtils > > component? > > > > We don't have a fixed development schedule. We're all working on projects > in our free time, so we release stuff, when "it's done". WRT BeanUtils2, we > currently have a stable state in trunk, which implements a subset of the > functionality provided by BeanUtils. BeanUtils2 should have all > capabilities of BeanUtils before it can be released as a replacement. I've > fought about releasing trunk as 0.1, but I feared the binary compatibility > discussions that this approach would lead to :-) > > So hear are the things that would have to go into BU2 before it can be > released as a replacement for BeanUtils: > > - evaluation of property paths: BeanUtils.setProperty(myBean, > "adress.street", "5th Ave"); > - Conversation between data types > - The caching has to be reworked, because it relies on static fields that > always cause trouble in multi class loader environments > - possibilities to configure custom BeanUtils instances > > > > > > I'm highly interested in contributing to this project. Please let me > know, > > if you plan to continue work on that project and how I might help you. > > > > I'm working mainly on [lang], but I can review patches. Patches are > contributed through our JIRA. Just open an issue and attach a svn diff file > to it. Please make sure that you have filed an ICLA [1]. You should also > read the material on our websites [2,3,4]. > > If you really want to join development of BU2, I'd recommend that you have > a look at trunk and play around with it a bit. Is there something you can > improve? Are there test cases missing? This are always good exercises for > getting started. > > After that we should discuss the topics I've mentioned above. > > HTH, > Benedikt > > [1] http://www.apache.org/licenses/ > [2] http://commons.apache.org/volunteering.html > [3] http://commons.apache.org/patches.html > [4] https://www.apache.org/foundation/how-it-works.html > > > > > > Thanks in advance. > > > > Regards, > > André > > > > > > -- > http://people.apache.org/~britter/ > http://www.systemoutprintln.de/ > http://twitter.com/BenediktRitter > http://github.com/britter >
