Hello Gonçalo,

welcome to the Apache Commons community.

2015-01-29 11:57 GMT+01:00 Gonçalo Marques <[email protected]>:

> Hello,
>
> I'm creating this thread in order to discuss issue COLLECTIONS-551.
>
> I don't know the deprecation policies of the Commons project in detail, but
> based on the last comment posted by Thomas on issue COLLECTIONS-550 I
> assume that:
>
> In the next release (4.1):
>
>  - Methods using Iterables in CollectionUtils should be replicated into
> IterableUtils;
>
>  - Methods in CollectionUtils should be transformed into delegates to the
> ones copied to IterableUtils;
>
>  - Methods in CollectionUtils should be marked as @Depreated.
>
> In release 5:
>
>  - Methods in CollectionUtils shall be removed.
>
>
> IMO the Unit Tests related with these methods should be copied into
> IterableUtilsTest, but should also be kept in CollectionUtilsTest until
> version 5. This way we also guarantee that the delegates in CollectionUtils
> don't break in 4.1.
>
> If this is correct, and if you think I may be useful here, I'm available to
> take this issue.
>
> Let me know your thoughts.
>

This is exactly the way to go. We always need helping hands. If you like to
work on this issue, go ahead!

Thanks,
Benedikt


>
> Gonçalo
>



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