Hi David,
The fact is that we increased the scope between our first discussion
about Karaf 3.0 and the current roadmap.
For instance, we decided to upgrade Karaf 3.0 to new version of Pax Web,
change the shell commands, included some required cleanup and
refactoring, upgrade to a new OSGi release, upgrade to a new Aries
version, etc.
All these things mean major changes for the users.
We all focus on the Karaf 3.0/trunk since at least a couple of months.
For instance, we spent time to fix the assemblies and distribution, etc.
So we made, and we still make, very good progress on the Karaf 3.0
release. Our team makes an awesome and really valuable work, most of us
during our spare time.
However, regarding the issues we had (e.g. the Aries Blueprint 0.4
upgrade wasn't smoothly at all) and the huge change, I think it makes
sense to address customers by creating a transition release.
It doesn't mean that we gonna maintain 3 branches (trunk, 2.3.x, and
2.2.x), it just means that we focus on trunk and merge some stuff on
2.3.x. We let the 2.2.x branch as it is as it's very stable branch.
My 0.02$
Regards
JB
On 11/10/2011 04:37 AM, David Jencks wrote:
IIRC during the summer we all agreed that 3.0 would be released for sure,
certainly, without doubt, by the end of the summer, and everyone would
enthusiastically help get it out. I don't think that really happened.
I'd prefer that more effort go into releasing 3.0 with a finite set of changes
rather than adding multiple kitchen sinks full of new features to 2.x. and
never working on getting 3.0 done enough to release. If we can get 3.0 out I
have no problem with people (not including me) then backporting all the
interesting features into 2.x.
thanks
david jencks
On Nov 9, 2011, at 2:54 PM, Jean-Baptiste Onofré wrote:
Hi all,
we started to perform a bunch of changes on the Karaf trunk (future Karaf 3.0
branch): refactoring on the commands to introduce the sub-shell, update to Pax
Web 2.0 and Jetty 8, renaming on the commands, new OSGi release, new Aries
version, etc.
It means a huge change for the users.
As our Karaf 2.2.x branch is our current stable branch, Guillaume and I
discussed the creation of a Karaf 2.3.x branch (waiting the 3.0 release).
This branch will include "minor" new features and dependencies upgrade.
Especially, I think it could be interesting to do on this branch:
- new OSGi release and framework update
- Aries update
- scp support and others minor new features
WDYT ?
Thanks
Regards
JB
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