Are you also talking about moving back everything in a single subproject ? So that the release would only consist in a single maven release ? If so, I'm not sure we can easily do that for bundles (which are used by downstream projects), and also the specs (which are used by Karaf).
On Sun, Feb 3, 2013 at 9:54 PM, Gert Vanthienen <[email protected]>wrote: > L.S., > > > About a year and a half ago, we had some discussions on the mailing list > about a plan for Apache ServiceMix 5.0 and had some initial commits to > build the additional services and functionality. Since then however, none > of us have actually had the time to work on that code or move things > forward. > > In the meanwhile, we are also struggling constantly to get our releases > done in timely fashion. The latest 4.5.0 release took almost 9 months > since the first mention of it on the dev@ list. Doing a ServiceMix > release > now is quite a task: it usually involves doing releases in 5 or 6 > subprojects. > > I would like to propose a new plan for Apache ServiceMix 5.0. Instead of > doing a lot of new development, how about we start with the current 4.x > features codebase and remove everything that's related to JBI and the NMR. > That will give us a nice and simple integration container build (based on > Karaf, Camel, CXF, ActiveMQ, ...) and everything is living in a single > project that's quick and easy to release. > > If we start doing this now, we could get a build out with Karaf 2.3.0, > ActiveMQ 5.8.0, Camel 2.11.0 (which will bring in Scala 2.10 and opens up > the possibility to include the Akka OSGi examples I built a few months ago) > pretty soon after those versions are available. With only one project to > maintain the versions of all those dependencies, we should be able to > follow up more regularly as our sibling projects do (new) fix releases as > well. > > We don't have to throw away the existing ServiceMix 5.0 code by the way, we > can always move that into a separate branch and then cherry-pick the useful > bits afterwards, but I think our first goal now should be to get ourselves > in a position that we can actually build and release stuff more easily > again. > > > Wdyt? > > Gert Vanthienen > -- ------------------------ Guillaume Nodet ------------------------ Red Hat, Open Source Integration Email: [email protected] Web: http://fusesource.com Blog: http://gnodet.blogspot.com/
