Hi Jean-Baptiste, We want to start moving people away from ServiceMix and towards Karaf, so I'm not sure we should be doing any new ServiceMix releases. It might make more sense to spend this time and energy on the Karaf side and provide a good alternative there.
We could do an integration distribution with Karaf, Camel, CXF, ... prepackaged within the Karaf community. That would probably have to become a subproject, to avoid having the Karaf releases themselves depend on a well-aligned set of ActiveMQ, Camel & CXF releases. That's a discussion that we've had before on the mailing lists, so we could revisit that idea. That does involve quite a bit of work on maintaining the distribution and releasing it regularly, but it would be the most convenient solution for users. Another solution that might work, is just to have a "cookbook" page somewhere in the Karaf documentation where we could document what features to install and where we could keep a list of versions of ActiveMQ, Camel & CXF that work well together. That's probably easier to do and would probably require less time and effort. My personal preference would go to this second solution: working with Karaf features for those three projects has become so much easier over the past few years, that many users are probably already creating their own integration solution that way. We should probably discuss both options further on the Karaf dev list, but either one would give us a way to point people towards Karaf. Instead of doing the new ServiceMix release and adding that to the website, we point users to the first release of the Karaf integration distribution or we point them to the cookbook page where they can discover how to build their own integration container. In both cases, we have taken one more step in the move to Karaf. Regards, Gert Vanthienen On Tue, Apr 18, 2023 at 7:19 AM Jean-Baptiste Onofré <j...@nanthrax.net> wrote: > > Hi all, > > Before moving forward on Karaf "move", I propose two actions: > > 1. Rename master branch as main > 2. Prepare SMX 8.0.0 updating dependency versions (using Karaf 4.4.x, > Camel 3.x, ActiveMQ 5.18.x, maybe removing activiti if the update is > not possible) > > Thoughts ? > > Regards > JB
