Tim Williams wrote: > We've discussed this many times (e.g. [1]) but I'd like to propose we > leave the dispatcher in the whiteboard for the 0.9 release.
I agree. I have been doing a lot of work on plugin infrastructure. We can deploy/release plugins on a separate schedule. -David > This > would allow us to remove the dispatcher-related blocker issues and > push off many of the other dispatcher-related issues to the future - > and, more importantly, allow us to get *something* out the door. > Obviously, there are valid considerations for doing either but I think > we've reached the point that we simply need to make a hard call and > move on. In times like this, I think, the conservative decision is > often best. For practical purposes, the folks that are using > dispatcher functionality right now are well aware of how to keep on > using it anyway so I'd suggest the only real downside is that it > limits future adoption of it rather than significantly hampering any > existing users - an very real but reasonable compromise. If no > objections emerge, I'll go ahead and push off those issues in JIRA. > Thoughts? > > Thanks, > --tim > > [1] - http://www.mail-archive.com/dev@forrest.apache.org/msg16091.html
