On Thu, Aug 28, 2008 at 9:00 AM, Zubin Wadia <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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.
correct. Also, it has happened quite some times that some code was "just" committed (or close to be) -Orchestra (aka Fusion) -Dojo-extensions, from Werner (are they already in?) If you feel uncomfortable, please do a revert. -Matthias > > Cheers, > > Zubin. > > On 8/28/08, Simon Kitching <[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 >> > > -- Matthias Wessendorf Need JSF and Web 2.0? http://code.google.com/p/facesgoodies further stuff: blog: http://matthiaswessendorf.wordpress.com/ sessions: http://www.slideshare.net/mwessendorf mail: matzew-at-apache-dot-org
