Hi, I think we should wait for Wicket 7 and release 8 / 9m1
kind regards Tobias > Am 21.01.2019 um 03:18 schrieb Maxim Solodovnik <solomax...@gmail.com>: > > +1 to release 8.3 and 9.0-M1 > 7.s is usually aligned with 8.x, so they should be released one-by-one :) > > will try to be more active on the project :) > >> On Mon, 21 Jan 2019 at 02:49, Andrea Del Bene <an.delb...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> Hi, >> >> I think it's time to share some ideas about future releases and >> developments. Here we go: >> >> - Wicket 8 and 7: I see we have a decent amount of changes targeted for >> 8.3 >> ( >> https://issues.apache.org/jira/secure/ReleaseNote.jspa?projectId=12310561&version=12344559). >> >> This is not the case for version 7.x, which doesn't have yet many issues >> solved for the next version 7.11.0 >> ( >> https://issues.apache.org/jira/secure/ReleaseNote.jspa?projectId=12310561&version=12344758). >> >> Should we consider to release 8.3 and 7.11.0 or do you think we'd better >> wait for the 7.x version to reach a "critical mass" of changes? >> >> - Wicket 9: after we close "Wicket-6563 page store implementation" >> (https://github.com/apache/wicket/pull/283) I think we could consider to >> release the first milestone for Wicket 9. Sounds good to you? >> >> Speaking of future developments for Wicket 9, I've got (so far) a couple >> of nice-to-have: >> >> - Use Java modularization (project Jigsaw): we should work to fully >> embrace the new modularization framework. If I remember correctly Martin >> has done some work with automatic modules but I can't find the exact >> commit at the moment. >> >> - Dismiss utility classes Time and Duration: Wicket still heavily use a >> couple of classes from package org.apache.wicket.util.time: Time and >> Duration. These classes are virtually equivalent to java.time.Instant >> and java.time.Duration. I'm aware that this is not a trivial task and >> it's quite delicate, but I'd really like to not depend on custom code >> for tasks like time and dates that are well supported by Java. For those >> who are interested I've started to make some experiment with this task >> and the results are very encouraging as most of the changes are in-place >> replacements of the old classes with the standard entities. You can find >> the code here: https://github.com/bitstorm/wicket/tree/remove-time-utils >> >> That's all, let me know what do you think! >> >> > > -- > WBR > Maxim aka solomax
