On Fri, Jun 15, 2012 at 9:37 AM, Christian Mueller <[email protected]>wrote:

> Hi David, Justin, Andrea, ....
>
> sorry for all these inconveniences.  During eliminating the  deprecations
> I also fixed some bugs. The problem is that within the last month my work
> was always interrupted. (Finishing my Master Thesis, emergency situation at
> my customer).  Splitting the patch in smaller chunks is possible, but this
> will require two days at a minimum.
>
> At the end of the day, NOT applying the patch will cause more troubles. I
> carefully read the mailing lists to get feedback and I resolved all the
> problems reported. Again, the only mistake I did was to prepare one big
> patch. This will never happen.
>
> Summary:
> Applying the patch is a risk, of course, nobody is perfect.  Not applying
> the patch is a disaster. I have seen users on the mailing list appreciating
> all these new features. The patch covers issues of IOErrors( broken jdbc
> connections)   and more. I do not want to go into details here, but I have
> a programming experience of 28 years and I have a feeling what is better
> and what is not better. Not applying the patch is the worst case scenario
> and will cause many troubles in the future.
>
> Can you be more specific about what the disasters will be? Especially in
light of the fact that we will be able to push out a release in
approximately one-months time after 2.2.0 goes out the door?

To present an opposing view many folks I talk to say that 2.2.0 not being
an official release yes is a disaster for them. Since we have waited so
long to make it a stable release people are naturally using it because they
need certain key features and bug fixes. But at the same time since its not
stable they can't expect the same level of support for it. There has to be
a compromise somewhere. And given that i don't hear too many people
screaming at this point I think that compromise is now. For those who these
issues really are a blocker for I don't think its unreasonable to ask the
to wait another 1-2 months for 2.2.1.




> Again, sorry
> Christian
>
>
>
>
>
> 2012/6/15 Justin Deoliveira <[email protected]>
>
>> Good point David. That is certainly one of the issues with the patch, in
>> that it lumps a number of changes together. If it were broken up i would be
>> fine with saying parts of it could go in and wait on only smaller parts of
>> it.
>>
>>
>> On Fri, Jun 15, 2012 at 8:10 AM, David Winslow <[email protected]>wrote:
>>
>>> Is it feasible to reduce the size of the patch by including only the
>>> consistency fixes, and shipping a GeoServer 2.2 release that knowingly
>>> contains UI bugs and uses deprecated (but presumed working) code?
>>>
>>> --
>>> David Winslow
>>> OpenGeo - http://opengeo.org/
>>>
>>> On Fri, Jun 15, 2012 at 9:50 AM, Christian Mueller 
>>> <[email protected]>wrote:
>>>
>>>> Hi Andrea,
>>>>
>>>> Yes, imho GSIP 77 will improve the situation. Big +1 for the proposal.
>>>> The whole new security system is a monster change  and I do not want to
>>>> have a Geoserver release with an inconsistent security system.  Let us wait
>>>> for Justins opinion, I would vote for your proposal having a beta 3.
>>>>
>>>> Christian
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> 2012/6/15 Andrea Aime <[email protected]>
>>>>
>>>>> On Fri, Jun 15, 2012 at 1:05 PM, Christian Mueller <[email protected]>
>>>>> wrote:
>>>>> > The question is how to continue, two facts I want to point out
>>>>> >
>>>>> > - We cannot make a 2.2.0 release without the changes. The system
>>>>> would not
>>>>> > work correctly.
>>>>> > - My next steps would be to review/complete the security
>>>>> documentation and
>>>>> > during this work, make a next round hardening the code.
>>>>> >
>>>>> >
>>>>> > Opinions ?.
>>>>>
>>>>> The fact that we still need a 4400+loc patch to fix the security
>>>>> subsystem tells me
>>>>> whatever we release next week cannot possibly be a release candidate,
>>>>> but at
>>>>> best a beta3, especially since you say that a next round of hardening
>>>>> is in
>>>>> the plans: nothing bad about it per se, but bad that it's needed since
>>>>> RC means
>>>>> Release Candidate, means we believe we're done and ask the users to
>>>>> check and eventually tell us otherwise.
>>>>>
>>>>> Hopefully GSIP 77 will bring some sanity into all of this.
>>>>>
>>>>> Btw, I have no time to review the patch, I can have a look during the
>>>>> weekend
>>>>> but my familiarity with the new authentication system is not enough.
>>>>> I'll trust Justin's judgement on it unless my quick review really
>>>>> finds some red flag.
>>>>>
>>>>> Cheers
>>>>> Andrea
>>>>>
>>>>> --
>>>>> Ing. Andrea Aime
>>>>> GeoSolutions S.A.S.
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>> Enterprise support for open source geospatial.
>>
>>
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