Sergey's commit brings up an interesting topic for discussion:
In general, when doing patch releases, I've tried to keep the impact
to a bare minimum. I have ported new features to the patch branches,
but pretty much only if it doesn't affect existing usage. Sergey
has done a fantastic job of updating the JAX-RS stuff to the latest
0.8 spec and it would be good to get people to change to using that.
However, it is a change that could affect existing code. So, should
that be part of 2.1.2 or wait for 2.2?
Pros/cons of adding to 2.1.2:
Pro: It's significantly better and has a bunch of bugs fixed
Pro: It's closer to the final spec (although the spec is still changing)
Pro: Going forward, people will need to migrate to it anyway
Con: it does affect existing apps
The main con to making it 2.2 only is that 2.2 is quite a ways away.
People have been asking for some of this stuff so making them wait
that long could be an issue.
Anyway, I'd like peoples thoughts on this. I've cc'd the users list
as well as I'd really like the users opinions as well. If the users
are willing to take the migration hit, I'm more than OK with putting
it for 2.1.2.
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Daniel Kulp
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