I don't think we should start working on 3.0 any time soon, unless we have to in order to support Java 9.
And I think we should make a 2.7 release really soon, and then more 2.x releases after that. Remember that many users haven't migrated from 1.2 yet. On Thu, Sep 15, 2016 at 8:36 PM, Gary Gregory <garydgreg...@gmail.com> wrote: > Ah, yes, Java 9... it just seems that we need to more clearly define what > is public vs. not and an SPI package seems like nice neat way to do that. > That said, it's a lot of busy work and I am not 100% it is worth it. I am > waffling. > > Gary > > On Thu, Sep 15, 2016 at 11:05 AM, Ralph Goers <ralph.go...@dslextreme.com> > wrote: > >> I am nowhere near wanting to do 3.0. But we may want to do it for Java 9 >> depending on how disruptive that is. That is one of the reasons I would >> like to get moving on Java 9 asap. I have a feeling we may want to >> continue the 2.x releases while 3.x is going just for that reason. >> >> Ralph >> >> On Sep 15, 2016, at 9:46 AM, Gary Gregory <garydgreg...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> Hi All, >> >> Should we start thinking about 3.0 where the main driver is to formalize >> a Core SPI package? >> >> Doing this for 2.8 and break BC in Core would be too disruptive. >> >> Doing this for 2.8 and have a Core class implement a SPI interface where >> the SPI interface inherits the old interface would be weird. >> >> Or, should we just keep on going as we have and keep Core BC a moving >> target? >> >> We could wait to do more 2.x releases and accumulate more deprecated code >> (Builders vs factory methods for example). >> >> Thoughts? >> >> Gary >> >> -- >> E-Mail: garydgreg...@gmail.com | ggreg...@apache.org >> Java Persistence with Hibernate, Second Edition >> <http://www.manning.com/bauer3/> >> JUnit in Action, Second Edition <http://www.manning.com/tahchiev/> >> Spring Batch in Action <http://www.manning.com/templier/> >> Blog: http://garygregory.wordpress.com >> Home: http://garygregory.com/ >> Tweet! http://twitter.com/GaryGregory >> >> >> > > > -- > E-Mail: garydgreg...@gmail.com | ggreg...@apache.org > Java Persistence with Hibernate, Second Edition > <http://www.manning.com/bauer3/> > JUnit in Action, Second Edition <http://www.manning.com/tahchiev/> > Spring Batch in Action <http://www.manning.com/templier/> > Blog: http://garygregory.wordpress.com > Home: http://garygregory.com/ > Tweet! http://twitter.com/GaryGregory > -- [image: MagineTV] *Mikael Ståldal* Senior software developer *Magine TV* mikael.stal...@magine.com Grev Turegatan 3 | 114 46 Stockholm, Sweden | www.magine.com Privileged and/or Confidential Information may be contained in this message. If you are not the addressee indicated in this message (or responsible for delivery of the message to such a person), you may not copy or deliver this message to anyone. In such case, you should destroy this message and kindly notify the sender by reply email.
