On 3/25/07, Will Glass-Husain <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Colleagues,
What should we aim for with Velocity 1.6?
I feel that we've cleaned up most urgent bugs and pressing issues with
the 1.5 release. Given the sporadic nature of our development
efforts, timelines are a little risky. Still, I was thinking it'd be
nice to do a release of 1.6 this fall.
if not before. :)
JIRA lists 38 issues with a 1.6 target. There's a few bugs and a lot
of incremental feature suggestions, few with actual code. Many of
these enhancement requests will likely get bumped back unless someone
champions them.
https://issues.apache.org/jira/secure/IssueNavigator.jspa?reset=true&mode=hide&sorter/order=DESC&sorter/field=priority&resolution=-1&pid=12310104&fixfor=12310290
What issues do our committer and developer community care about?
the ones they work on. :) myself, i'm interested in helping to pull
out Texen, do a 1.0 release immediately after the move, and then start
improving it. also, i'm thinking about setting aside some time to
work on a way to make Velocity treat lists and arrays as much like
fixed-length lists as possible, so that template authors needn't
bother about the difference. and yeah, i think that can be done in a
B.C. manner.
oh, i'm also interested in exploring ideas for supporting Iterable in
#foreach and varargs in method calls (i.e. key JDK 1.5 improvements)
without the need to resort to stuff on the whiteboard. JDK 6 is out
and many companies (mine included) now dev against 1.5. I'd like to
see these supported out-of-the-box, if at all possible.
I think we should have modest goals. Myself, I mostly want to see the
macro issues addressed. I'd also like to clean up the project, split
out Texen and Anakia (per Henning's suggestions on maintaining
compatibility). I've written up a few notes at
http://wiki.apache.org/velocity/RoadMap
If one of the committers (Henning?) becomes fired up, we could start a
2.0 branch, though I confess that personally I'm more interested in
incremental development.
for the moment, i am too. it's currently only the whitespace stuff
that makes me itch to move on to 2.0...
WILL
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