I'll be on vacation the next week. I could do it in two weeks at the earliest.
Benedikt 2015-05-11 5:26 GMT+02:00 Gary Gregory <garydgreg...@gmail.com>: > Hello, it is not dormant. It's just that no one has volunteered to cut a > release candidate. The component is due for a refresh. I did not realize it > had been so long since a release. > Any volunteers? > > Gary > > -------- Original message -------- > From: Kervin Pierre <ker...@sludev.com> > Date: 05/10/2015 18:20 (GMT-06:00) > To: dev@commons.apache.org > Subject: [io] Is commons-io dormant? > > Hi, > > The last snapshot ( 2.5-SNAPSHOT ) seems to be over a year old, and last > release 2.4 was in 2012 ( I believe, please correct me if I'm wrong ). > > I started using its Tailer class in 2.4 and realized there are a few > bugs. Some are fixed over a year now in SVN. E.g. commons-io 2.4 > version swallows InterruptException. For a class that blocks most of > its life that's very inconvenient when trying to shutdown the thread. > Also there are fixes relating to > https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/IO-279 which although aren't > entirely fixed, have been made much better but are only in the snapshot. > > So is commons-io dormant? Is there something users can do to help if > it's a time-resource issue? > > Best regards, > Kervin > > -- http://people.apache.org/~britter/ http://www.systemoutprintln.de/ http://twitter.com/BenediktRitter http://github.com/britter
