I'm +1 for turning off 2.1 support. On Mon, Nov 16, 2009 at 10:05 AM, Daniel Kulp <dk...@apache.org> wrote:
> > Question for everyone..... > > What are peoples thoughts about making 2.1.9 (in January) the last of the > 2.1.x line? > > 2.2.x will have been out for 10 months by then so users definitely should > have > had plenty of time to migrate. 2.2.x is generally a simple migration from > 2.1.x. I think most of the other major open source projects that were > tracking 2.1.x have already moved onto 2.2.x. ServiceMix, Camel, JBoss, > etc... The remaining projects that are using 2.1.x seem to be stuck on > a > particular version (like Mule stuck on 2.1.3) and not "tracking" the fixes > anyway. > > The main migration issue from 2.1.x to 2.2.x is the JAX-RS version (0.8 -> > 1.0). However, we aren't fixing any of the JAX-RS issues on 2.1.x anyway. > Thus, that's not a real reason. If you are using JAX-RS, you definitely > want > the compliant implementation in 2.2. > > Anyway, making 2.1.9 the end of the line should then make it such that when > 2.3 is ready (hopefully in Q1), we can just keep 2 fixes branches active. > > Thoughts? Comments? > > -- > Daniel Kulp > dk...@apache.org > http://www.dankulp.com/blog >
