Carlos Sanchez wrote:
you guys realize that final versions of Maven have been using Doxia
for quite some time now and the fact that it's being called alpha as
an excuse to make more API changes, which will affect the future
development of maven, instead of evolving the API in a backwards
compatible way, it's not a good idea at all
my 0.02
Doxia is not called alpha as an excuse for more API changes, it's called
alpha because it *is* alpha. Just have a look at the code. Have a look
at some open issues [eg DOXIA-38, DOXIA-63, DOXIA-78, DOXIA-99,
DOXIA-104,...] (and while your at it, tell me how to fix them without
affecting backwards compatibility :) ).
It has been mentioned and dicussed a few times on this list, that we
intent to stabilize the API with the first beta release. It's at least
half a year ago now that I drew up the roadmap for it, and basically all
the bug-fix issues scheduled for beta-1 are potentially going to affect
backwards compatibility. [1]
If people are not happy with that then let's put out alpha-10 as
1.0-final and call beta-1 2.0-alpha-30-SNAPSHOT. I'd feel uneasy voting
for the release, and my fear is that nothing will happen anymore after
that, but fine, if that is what makes people happy.
I have tried to collect input on some of the issues on confluence [2]
and on this list. It is discouraging to see how people are ignoring such
discussions, but as soon as they realize that some changes are going to
require some work on their part, they come up with prophetic
trivialities ('backward-incompatible changes are baaad') and useless
statements ('we've been using it so long', so what?).
Don't get me wrong, I'm just trying to get some constructive input,
because honestly, I would need it! :)
-Lukas
[1]
http://jira.codehaus.org/browse/DOXIA?report=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.project:roadmap-panel
[2] http://docs.codehaus.org/display/DOXIA/Home
On 10/21/07, Dennis Lundberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Lukas has continued work on trunk for beta-1 which includes changes to
the api. These changes will *not* be in the doxia release that I plan do
shortly. This release, dubbed alpha-10, is a bug-fix release for
alpha-9. Alpha-9 has some bugs that makes it unusable for the site- and
project-info-reports-plugin.
So the plan is to do a quick alpha-10 of doxia followed by releases of
site-plugin and project-info-reports-plugin.
Carlos Sanchez wrote:
why still alpha?
On 10/20/07, Dennis Lundberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Hi
As you might have seen from the commit messages, I have created branches
in doxia and doxia-sitetools for future alpha releases. The branches
were created from 1.0-alpha-9. On the branches the following stuff has
been merged in from trunk:
- DOXIA-156
- DOXIA-161
- The dependency cleanup in the poms
Do we need anything else?
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Dennis Lundberg
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Dennis Lundberg
