+1 Good idea, IMO master has accumulated a lot of nice features to warrant a release.
Regards, Karsten Otto On 24.02.22 5:49 AM, Benoit TELLIER wrote: > Hello James people, > > Might you have not noticed it, we are currently having a very nice > contributor on Github proposing a Nett4 ugrade, and doing an awesome job > doing so [1]. > > While the amount of code impacted can seem limited (few thousant lines, > hundred files) the change is significant, and likely invole some risks. > The current Netty 3 layer, as old as it is, is now pretty much battle > tested. I'm expecting multiple fixes for the Netty 4 implementation to > come in the coming months. > > I am totaly devoted to get this contribution in. I will perform QA test > with most major clients and will conduct a perfmance test campaign > against it, but I am unsure we can get all the possible bugs before > merging it. > > Of course I invite other contributors to also take a look at it. > > However, I will feel more confident releasing a 3.7.0 release now (we > are IMO quitte stable on master now), then merge Netty4 on master and > thus have some time to refine it before a potential 3.8.0, thus > minimizing risks of such a change to our users. > > [1] https://github.com/apache/james-project/pull/886 > > Thoughts? > > Regards, > > Benoit TELLIER > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: server-dev-unsubscr...@james.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: server-dev-h...@james.apache.org >
