Uwe Schindler wrote: >> 0 issues! Congrats everyone. 2.9 was quite a beast. >> >> So looks like we should get a few things in order. >> >> 1. Anyone dying to be release manager? I think I could do it, but I'm >> kind of pressed for time ... >> >> 2. Lets start crawling all over this release - bugs/javadoc/packaging etc. >> >> 3. In regards to that - I'd like to suggest that we don't do the release >> branch early for 2.9. I know we normally make the release >> branch so that further dev can continue on trunk. In this case I >> don't think that is wise. I propose that we lock down trunk for a >> while, to force people to concentrate on *this* release. Otherwise we >> divide our limited forces into two - those working on release, and those >> working on trunk and beyond. We can kind of enforce this by making the >> release branch last minute I think. >> > > I think 3.0 is a little bit special: We move to Java 1.5, so in my opinion, > we should not only remove deprecations, but also add Generics and remove > StringBuffer and so on. I have some "patches" for that available, e.g. the > casting currently needed for the Attributes API can be more elegantly solved > by using generics (something like "T addAttribute(Class<T extends > Attribute>)"). If we do not add generics to the public API in 3.0, we have > to wait one major release longer to add them. > > To get the 3.0 release shortly after 2.9, we should branch now, that the > generics commits could be done early. I would also help to do this (at least > for the parts I was working on the last time). > > I forgot about this oddity. Its so weird. Its like we are doing two releases on top of each other - it just seems confusing.
Apache Lucene announces 2.9 - a lot of hard work and sweat - move to it and five minutes later Apache Lucene announces 3.0 - very little work, but different and improved (generified anyway). No new features in 3.0. Hold the applause. Now move to it. I vote to make this more sane :) -- - Mark http://www.lucidimagination.com --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: java-dev-unsubscr...@lucene.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: java-dev-h...@lucene.apache.org
