Hi David, It makes sense and it would be more "consistent" to have a single repository.
As Converter is part of the "spec", it makes sense to be located at Eclipse. My only "concern" is about the contributions/contributors on Felix Converter. Will all Felix committers be able to change/maintain code at Eclipse (the code coming from Felix Converter) ? Regards JB > Le 6 mai 2021 à 17:17, [email protected] a écrit : > > Hi all, > > As most would have noticed, OSGi has moved to the Eclipse Foundation [1] > and all the future OSGi specification work will happen there [2]. > > The Converter that's in the Felix codebase is an implementation of the OSGi > Converter specification [3]. As Converter is a 'util' specification, OSGi > also provides an implementation with the API. There could be other > implementations as well, this is similar to what is done with Push Streams > and the Service Tracker. > > The initial implementation of the Converter Util at OSGi was based on the > same codebase as the Converter at Felix. In effect it's a fork. Over time > the two forks have started to diverge a little, mostly due to different > fixes being applied to both of them. > > Now that OSGi is an Eclipse project and all of the OSGi technology at > Eclipse is developed as ordinary opensource projects with the ASL2 license > I think it would be good if we could collapse these 2 forks into one again. > Because the Converter is the implementation shipped by OSGi as part of its > spec API (into [4]), we can't really remove the implementation from the > OSGi codebase. > So I would like to discuss removing the Converter from the Felix codebase, > so that the codebase can live on in a single location which would be: > https://github.com/osgi/osgi/tree/main/org.osgi.util.converter/src/org/osgi/util/converter > > Obviously this would mean to consolidate all the bugfixes that went into > its Felix codebase into the combined one. > Combining the codebases into one would mean that all users get the benefit > from work done to the implementation by both communities. > > I hope that the Felix community would be open to this. > > Best regards, > > David Bosschaert > > [1] > https://newsroom.eclipse.org/news/announcements/osgi-alliance-transfers-governance-osgi-specifications-open-source-software > [2] https://projects.eclipse.org/projects/technology.osgi > [3] https://docs.osgi.org/specification/osgi.cmpn/7.0.0/util.converter.html > [4] https://repo1.maven.org/maven2/org/osgi/org.osgi.util.converter/
