But that thread is from Jun 04 - that is very nearly 3 months ago. Since
then, nothing as far as I know.
Zubin Wadia schrieb:
Simon,
You can do a search for Subject = '[OT] JSF 2.0' on the Dev list.
I believe that discussion, begun by MW turned into a discussion about
branch creation... then a couple of +1s followed.... and I assume
that's where the branch was born.
Cheers,
Zubin.
On 8/28/08, *Simon Kitching* <[EMAIL PROTECTED]
<mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>> wrote:
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
