Re: Summary of my external work

2017-01-11 Thread Peter
I'd like to think the future lies with River, it's mainly directed at solving existing River issues with security, modularity, jdk9 and IPv6 support among others. The commit history is available on github.  If River migrates to Git, the change history can be preserved. Hopefully review and

Re: Summary of my external work

2017-01-11 Thread Peter
 Some notes on backward compatibility: River 2.2.3 and 3.0.0 break compatibility (with River 2.2.2 and Jini 2.1), the former after removal of Activation and JRMP exporter, the latter with the com.sun.jini -> org.apache.river namespace change.  I've chosen deprecation over removal, module

Re: Summary of my external work

2017-01-11 Thread Bryan Thompson
I do not have a huge problem with detached development. The work could always be brought into a branch for review and commentary. In general, I think the broader question is status quo vs active development. I think that there is some consensus around the need for river to evolve, especially in

Re: Summary of my external work

2017-01-11 Thread Patricia Shanahan
How do you envisage the future of this work? Personally, given the volume of changes outside svn, without any review or commit messages, I am not sure I would vote for an Apache release based on this code. Do you have a quorum of PMC members who do feel comfortable with this process? On

Summary of my external work

2017-01-11 Thread Peter Firmstone
Forked from River trunk just before 3.0 release. * Security focused: o Supports updated modern cyphers, support for vulnerable cypers removed. o Reimplementation of serialization, includes input validation and defensive programming. o