> In some places I see there are reference of code which is under
> *com.alibaba.fastjson,
> *as part of release process should we also consider rewriting them or
> providing license from the owner org?

I remember fastjson is a thirt-party dependency of Dubbo, do you mean you saw 
some source codes directly under ‘com.alibaba.fastjson’?

Jun

> On Dec 28, 2018, at 2:42 PM, Imteyaz Khan <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> In some places I see there are reference of code which is under
> *com.alibaba.fastjson,
> *as part of release process should we also consider rewriting them or
> providing license from the owner org?
> 
> 
> 
> On Fri, Dec 28, 2018 at 8:15 AM Huxing Zhang <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
>> Nice work!
>> 
>> I think we should let the community to participate more in the release
>> process, for example,
>> 1. check out a release branch called 2.7.0-release
>> 2. encourage people to check it out, test it and report if there is
>> any regressions, bugs or issues.
>> 3. while we are doing the test, we can start going through the ASF
>> release process locally, once we think it is ready to start a formal
>> release note, it can be done very quickly.
>> 
>> By the way, we need decide the release manager of 2.7.0 release. Is
>> there anyone who volunteer to do that?
>> 
>> On Thu, Dec 27, 2018 at 11:53 PM jun liu <[email protected]> wrote:
>>> 
>>> Hi, All
>>> 
>>> I am writing this mail to
>>> 
>>> * Keep you refreshed of the latest status about v2.7.0.
>>> * Call for efforts on code review and tests
>>> * Discuss possible release schedules of v2.7.0.
>>> 
>>> About v2.7, it’s going to be a milestone version, in which will make
>> some significant changes. Most importantly, we will complete all IP
>> Clearance related works. Technically speaking, it’s from this version on
>> that a Dubbo release starts fully follows the Apache rules (lawfully),
>> totally independent from any other third-party organizations or companies.
>> Secondly, this version will include many new features that have received
>> wide attention from the community, by supporting these features, we can
>> better resolve the community’s long accumulated demands. Last but not
>> least, we have made some architectural changes in this version, made Dubbo
>> closer to the micro-service architecture, take the newly introduced
>> configuration center as an example, it can work both as the center of
>> Externalized Configuration at startup and as the center of service
>> management configurations at runtime.
>>> 
>>> To summarize, the contents already included in the CodeBase are:
>>> 
>>> * Config Center: Zookeeper, Apollo, Nacos
>>> * Externalized Configuration
>>> * Service governance enhancement: dynamic configuration & routing rule
>>> * Repackage to 'org.apache.dubbo'
>>> * Java 8 support
>>> * Async programming support
>>> 
>>> Most of the candidates listed above are in the proposal list that we
>> have discussed in some threads before. For a more detailed description of
>> these features or how they are realized, you can refer to the draft
>> development documentations within this link[1]
>>> 
>>> Thanks to the efforts from the community (especially thank to Ian,
>> CVictory and Minxuan), most of the development work has been completed and
>> a round of code review and regression test based on some basic use cases
>> have been completed[2].
>>> Now I think it's time to prepare the formal release. One most important
>> thing I think we should pay attention to is stability. We should guarantee
>> it's stable enough before release, so we may need to put more effort into
>> code review and functional testing. Based on my understanding of the
>> CodeBase, such tests may at least continue to last for about 1 week, during
>> this period we may need to `freeze the code`, which means only optimization
>> and bugfix will be allowed. After that, we can continue to evaluate when to
>> start the formal vote process.
>>> 
>>> 1. https://github.com/apache/incubator-dubbo/issues/2919
>>> 2.
>> https://github.com/apache/incubator-dubbo-samples/tree/samples-for-2.7.0-SNAPSHOT
>>> 
>>> Jun
>>> 
>> 
>> 
>> --
>> Best Regards!
>> Huxing
>> 

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