Yeah, that sounds like a good plan to me, +1
On Mon, Feb 4, 2013 at 10:46 AM, Gert Vanthienen <[email protected]>wrote: > Guillaume, > > > Bundles and specs are usually released separately these days and they have > a completely different release cycle than the container, so I would keep > those as they are today. > > I was mainly thinking about Features itself and the things we usually > release together with that (Utils, Components, NMR, Archetypes). If we > could strip that down to a single maven build for the container itself and > drop the JBI/NMR bits, we should be able to do those container builds more > quickly and easily, making it easier to stay up-to-date with all other > dependency versions (Karaf, Camel, CXF, ...) > > > Regards, > > Gert Vanthienen > > > On Mon, Feb 4, 2013 at 9:16 AM, Guillaume Nodet <[email protected]> wrote: > > > 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/ > > > -- ------------------------ Guillaume Nodet ------------------------ Red Hat, Open Source Integration Email: [email protected] Web: http://fusesource.com Blog: http://gnodet.blogspot.com/
