On Wed, 2006-12-20 at 20:42 +0100, Roland Weber wrote: > Hi all, > > year-end break is approaching, and so is a time when I can > finally spend a few consecutive days on coding again. To be > precise: from Jan 3rd up to the end of that week. I'd like > to pick up work on HTTPCLIENT-602 (formerly HTTPCORE-8): > http://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HTTPCLIENT-602 > > Before then, I have a few days left this week and one or > two next week in which I'd like to discuss the matter and > collect some ideas. That should allow me to get started > quickly next year. > Oleg, what are your plans during this timeframe? Anything > that would require the connection interface to be (mostly) > complete before mid January? Or is there something else > in HttpClient that you consider more urgent on which I > should work? >
Hi Roland, Things are a little bit crazy here. I am quite overstretched with my 'for profit' projects at the moment. I am also expected to work over Christmas, as we all know evil Commies do not celebrate Christmas. Then, I promised my wife to take some time off and to not do any hacking (be it for profit or for fun). We are planing to take a trip to London from Dec 29th to Jan 6th. So, I am afraid I am not likely be able to contribute any code way until mid January. However, I'll do my best to participate in architecture discussions and review patches. As far as priorities are concerned here is my personal list: * have HttpClient ported to the HttpCore API and to have as many test cases ported as possible. I would not like to get bogged down in refactoring of some isolated components before we get the whole damn thing more or less functional and have sufficient test coverage to detect regressions in functionality. * Decide whether we ship HttpClient as one artifact (jar) or a collection of smaller jars. Probably we should talk about it to the rest of Jakarta before the final decision is made. * Get ALPHA1 out. Beyond that anything goes. My current task at hand is to port authentication components (HttpAuth). If you could take a look at the HttpConn stuff in parallel, it would be just awesome. Do feel obliged, though. If you feel like spending some time hacking just pick up something you consider fun. > My goal is to define an interface for client side connections > that covers the full functionality typically required of a > connection. It should be easily usable and/or extensible for > HttpAsync. I would also like to keep it compatible with NIO > requirements, if possible. The open(...) problem was a major > point of discussion as long as we still had it in HttpCore. > Of course an initial implemention comes with the interface. > > I will also work on the JavaDocs for HttpClient. Those that > were moved over from the 3.x codebase generate plenty of > warnings I can fix when I don't feel like doing real work :-) > > I'll send an extra mail to start the technical discussion. > I'll try to find time tonight or this weekend the latest to answer emails and review patches. Cheers Oleg > cheers, > Roland > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
