On Fri, Jun 4, 2010 at 1:02 AM, Simon Laws <[email protected]> wrote: > On Thu, Jun 3, 2010 at 6:01 PM, Luciano Resende <[email protected]> wrote: >> On Thu, Jun 3, 2010 at 9:49 AM, Raymond Feng <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> If we decide to have them in M5, we should document that it's experimental >>> and subject to further changes. The bottom line is that I want to make sure >>> the door is still open and the "existence" of such jars in M5 is NOT an >>> excuse to stay as-is in the future :-). >>> Thanks, >>> Raymond >> >> In the past, people have told me multiple times that I can't change >> something because we have previously released it. So, as suggested by >> Raymond, if we release it, I want to make sure we clearly mention this >> is experimental and might go away in the future. My personal >> preference would be to make it available in trunk where people >> interested in this approach could evaluate/play with it. >> >> >> > > My feeling is that these are milestone releases as we head towards a > 2.0 release proper and I don't personally feel that there are sacred > cows in there, i.e. I don't subscribe to the "once it's it it can't be > removed" notion. > > We do need to have a discussion about the > format/structure/capabilities of the 2.0 release and when we think we > might be ready to create such a thing. To a certain a extent we've > been down this road before and for some reason it's not been plain > sailing. We do though need to reach some conclusions so that we can > get on with building the interesting stuff. So first things first how > do people suggest we go about doing that? > > Simon >
How about we start with a "simple paragraph" describing a use case which is not covered by the current manifest jar we have in modules. Once we have a clear understanding of what we are trying to solve, I guess we can start discussing if there is a way to enhance what we currently have or if we should create/continue with a new approach. -- Luciano Resende http://people.apache.org/~lresende http://twitter.com/lresende1975 http://lresende.blogspot.com/
