On Fri, Jun 4, 2010 at 5:48 PM, Luciano Resende <[email protected]> wrote: > 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/ >
Sounds reasonable. Anyone have scenario descriptions they want to share? Simon -- Apache Tuscany committer: tuscany.apache.org Co-author of a book about Tuscany and SCA: tuscanyinaction.com
