On Tue, Aug 2, 2016 at 1:06 PM, Nick Wellnhofer <[email protected]> wrote:

> I fixed most of the issues I wanted to get in the 0.6.0 release. It's mainly
> boring stuff that I wanted to tackle before starting with more exciting
> features:
>
> https://issues.apache.org/jira/issues/?jql=fixVersion%20%3D%200.6.0%20AND%20project%20%3D%20CLOWNFISH

18 issues resolved, only 2 still open!

> I think we all agreed to shorten the major release cycle. If nobody objects,
> I'll prepare a 0.6.0 release in the next weeks which can then be released
> approximately 6 months after 0.5.0. I don't have plans for a 0.5.2 bugfix
> release unless there's explicit demand. I presume that the vast majority of
> our users is working with the Lucy Perl bindings which stay completely
> unchanged.

Sounds great.  I'll help out with the tasks here:

  http://wiki.apache.org/lucy/ReleasePrep

Last I checked the Python bindings needed some attention.

> After the 0.6.0 release, I want to add support for OOP interfaces to
> Clownfish. This is a major feature required to enable callbacks from
> languages without class-based inheritance like Go. After reviewing several
> options, I came up with a nice approach that I'll detail on this list
> shortly.

I'll be interested to see your latest take on this. Both the Go and
the Python bindings are missing extensibility in anticipation of
Clownfish adding interface support.

Marvin Humphrey

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