Hi Janne, some estimates regarding "how much time is left for hacking JSPWiki when you have your first kid" - initially none and later on you might hack between 22:00 to 24:00 ... ;-)
Cheers, Siegfried Goeschl Father of two remarkable girls Late Night Apache Hacker Janne Jalkanen wrote: >> I've found @since tags to be valuable as a way to see what's changed. >> Especially useful for migrating plugins from earlier releases. I >> don't see anything wrong with adding @since 3.0.0 to new APIs and >> tagging the others with e.g. 2.8.0 for features that were in 2.8, >> even though they were in a class instead of an interface. > > Actually, my problem is with @author-tags... I think they are useless > and potentially dangerous at this point. Here's a nice presentation > from the Subversion team (it's a good presentation, and this > particular topic starts at about 17m30s. Very recommended watching.) > > http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-4216011961522818645 > >> There's really nothing else to do before releasing. The release >> process from the incubator is mainly an exercise in reviewing the >> release package to make sure that all code is legally releasable >> under the Apache license (code developed or donated to the project >> itself) or compatible licenses (code developed elsewhere and released >> as part of the package for convenience, e.g. the lib directory jar >> files). > > OK. > > Unfortunately, I've run out of time. I currently got the following > things on my plate: > > * JCR integration > * bug triage (on the issue tracker) > * Apache graduation > * 3.0 refactoring > * general participation on the mailing lists; responding to user > questions, etc. > > I also have a book project which is now overdue, and on which I will > have to concentrate from now on until it is in better shape. Our > first child is also due in about four weeks, and there's a lot of > practical stuff to be done still. And unfortunately, these two have > to take precendence over JSPWiki hacking. > > I was hoping to get the JCR integration done before the Christmas > holidays, but unfortunately I hit some major snags, which will need > some rethinking. Like the fact that in order to get a WikiPage, you > need a WikiContext; and in order to get a WikiContext, you need a > WikiPage... Versioning is also a pain. > > At any rate, with respect to graduation, this is not good news unless > someone else can take the load off me. Since getting a kid is a new > situation for me, I can't even give an estimate on how much time I > possibly have for hacking. But at any rate, don't expect a whole lot > of responses from me in the next few months. I am going to > concentrate on the JCR integration, and just ignore a lot of the other > stuff. > > Unfortunately, free time is a limited resource, so others will need to > step up now. > > /Janne > >
