Hi Jukka, I would say that SNS is worth the effort because dropping support completely will give a serious migration issue for users that have deployed repositories that use SNS and want to stay close to the newest Jackrabbit version. You mention that the feature could also be limited as far as permitted by the JCR standard. What does that exactly mean wrt backwards compatability?
I am not into the technical details of the SNS support: what is exactly causing problems and what would be needed to fix it? Best regards, Martijn Hendriks -----Original Message----- From: Jukka Zitting [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, February 08, 2008 4:23 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Same name siblings Hi, Support for same name siblings is troublesome and currently the best practice is to avoid them if possible. In many cases the default response when we see people having problems with SNS is to tell them not to use the feature. I think that's lame. We should either treat SNS as a first-class feature that we just haven't been able to make work yet, or explicitly deprecate it and plan to drop or at least seriously limit the feature as far as is permitted by the JCR standard. The current status where SNS is kind of supported but "you should not use it!" is IMHO not sustainable in the long run. WDYT, is SNS worth the effort, or should we consider dropping it? BR, Jukka Zitting
