I see from the commit list that a new JSF2.0 branch has been created.
I don't remember seeing *any* kind of discussion or even announcement about this. While I am happy to see JSF2.0 work going on, this kind of approach does not seem to be at all in the "community" spirit. IMO, major events like this should be discussed beforehand.
One issue, for example, is that the core-1.2 stuff is currently half-way-converted from the trinidad plugins to the myfaces-builder-plugin. So now it is branched, any changes need to be applied in two places.
In addition, a large amount of code has just been committed by someone (slessard) who is not a particularly regular contributor to myfaces. Where did this code come from? Do we need a code grant for it? Note that when code is developed iteratively on the dev list then there is no need for a grant. But a sudden code dump is different, even when contributed by someone who has signed a CLA.
And with 3 branches to now maintain, we need to discuss whether and when we phase out maintenance of the jsf-1.1 branch. Currently when users provide patches in jira, they almost always provide a patch against only one version and the committer ports it, which does increase the load on existing committers. When do we stop asking committers to do this when patching bugs?
To repeat, I'm *happy* that jsf2.0 implementation is in progress, and appreciate people contributing time to write an ASF-2.0-licensed implementation. But it is a standard saying at Apache that "community is more important than code", and the "community" aspect here seems to have been rather neglected...
Regards, Simon
