> >Because of all these having been incorporated, I think Struts is now way > >past something that should have been called a 1.1 release. According to the ... > Well, a little perspective is necessary here -- Tiles and Validator > have been in the 1.1 mix since well before 1.1.b2. I do believe that > the EL taglibs were added after 1.1b2, so maybe there's a bit of > feature creep -- but they seem real handy if you have the liberty of > using JSP 1.2 (wish I did...)
Don't get me wrong: I'm definitely not complaining about those features being added. I think they're great! And because it's all contributed stuff, it's not like it's taking up valuable development time that would otherwise have been spent on improving the core. My only point is that Struts is doing itself a disservice with it's current release numbering. I'm fortunate in that my company has the good sense to use 1.1 despite the fact that it's still called a beta; it seems that other readers of this list are not so fortunate. But it would be a very hard sell to convince our clients to let us use a nightly build of _anything_ in their applications. Maybe it's just about time to flag a (stable) nightly build as beta 3? > >I definitely agree that this would be useful. I would prefer it to go > >slightly further though, into being a milestone plan along the same lines as > >the one Mozilla has (i.e. to set out the features and bug fixes that are > >targetted for the next N releases, rather than just the next one). I find > >that gives a very clear picture of where the project is at. It does need to > >be kept up to date, though... > > Do you have any time to offer towards creating such a plan? > Everybody pitches in around here... I will help in any way that I can, although my time _is_ limited. > I think Mozilla has a much larger community, and does it have more > people who get paid to work on it? Yes, it does, but I'm not sure how relevant that is. It needn't be a highly detailed plan: I would expect it to start off fairly general and add details as milestones get closer. > Not that it's not a good goal -- just that wishing won't make it so! Agreed! Cheers, Vil. -- Vilya Harvey, Consultant [EMAIL PROTECTED] / digital steps / (W) +44 (0)1483 469 480 (M) +44 (0)7816 678 457 http://www.digitalsteps.com/ --Disclaimer-- This e-mail and any attachments may be confidential and/or legally privileged. If you have received this email and you are not a named addressee, please inform the sender at Digital Steps Ltd by phone on +44 (0)1483 469 480 or by reply email and then delete the email from your system. If you are not a named addressee you must not use, disclose, distribute, copy, print or rely on this email. Although Digital Steps Ltd routinely screens for viruses, addressees should check this email and any attachments for viruses. Digital Steps Ltd makes no representation or warranty as to the absence of viruses in this email or any attachments. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:struts-user-unsubscribe@;jakarta.apache.org> For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:struts-user-help@;jakarta.apache.org>
