Hello Keith,

Yes, it is very good news for us.

Thank you,
Rabih

On Wed, Feb 8, 2017 at 10:53 AM, Keith W <[email protected]> wrote:

> Hi Rabih,
>
> We've been having some further discussions and have decided to alter
> course.   We now plan to put out QPID-7558 as a defect release on the
> 6.1 line.  This will be 6.1.2.  I'd hope to to have the release public
> before the end of the month.  Would this be useful to you?  Please let
> me know.
>
> Kind regards,
>
> Keith.
>
>
>
>
>
> On 2 February 2017 at 17:34, Keith W <[email protected]> wrote:
> > Hi Rabih
> >
> > Whilst the initial work to backport this one patch would be trivial,
> > unfortunately the overhead of maintaining the extra code line is not.
> >  The team we have working at "Qpid Broker for Java/0-x client" is
> > completely focused on the v7.0 work right now (mainly AMQP 1.0
> > implementation improvements), and I don't have the spare capacity to
> > produce a 6.2.0.   The overhead for a single enhancement is simple too
> > much.
> >
> > I will attach a patch to QPID-7558 (first thing tomorrow) that will
> > apply cleanly to 6.1.x, allowing you to simply checkout/build your
> > own.
> >
> > I will keep this under review.  If v7.0 slips from its estimated
> > delivery date, or it makes sense to release other features early in a
> > v6.2, QPID-7558 will be included too.
> >
> > Hope this makes sense to you. Kind regards, Keith.
> >
> >
> > On 2 February 2017 at 13:43, Rabih M <[email protected]> wrote:
> >> Hello,
> >>
> >> Thank you for your answers.
> >> We would appreciate if we could have minor version including this
> feature
> >> (if it is easy to back-port of course) because we already a use case to
> >> implement that requires this feature.
> >>
> >> Best regards,
> >> Rabih
> >>
> >> On Wed, Feb 1, 2017 at 9:18 PM, Rob Godfrey <[email protected]>
> wrote:
> >>
> >>> On 1 February 2017 at 18:37, Robbie Gemmell <[email protected]>
> >>> wrote:
> >>>
> >>> > If it was considered for back port then it seems a 6.2.0 would be
> >>> > better if sticking to a strict semver format, though I wouldn't
> overly
> >>> > mind if it was just included in a 6.1.2 with any intended bugfixes
> >>> > either if folks really didn't want to have a 6.2.x a couple months
> >>> > before doing 7.0.0, though I don't see a huge issue with that
> >>> > personally. I also don't think it would be unreasonable to tell
> anyone
> >>> > that since such a 6.2.x series would be so similar to 6.1.x, renamed
> >>> > only on semver grounds for a fairly isolated feature many folks wont
> >>> > touch, that there won't be any more 6.1.x releases to cut down on the
> >>> > overhead of maintaining two almost identical release branches.
> >>> >
> >>> > I guess the main thing is really how much work it is to back port it,
> >>> > which I can't say I know.
> >>> >
> >>>
> >>> I think the work to backport from trunk to a branch from 6.1.x should
> be
> >>> pretty trivial.  In terms of versioning, I'm probably more "liberal" in
> >>> what I would allow in a 6.1.2 release than others would be, though
> given
> >>> that this essentially adds (in a compatible manner) to the (REST) API
> >>> around the JDBC virtualhost(node), I can see why we would want this to
> be a
> >>> 6.2.
> >>>
> >>> Fundamentally using semantic versioning is supposed to help the user
> base,
> >>> if by using it we hold off on releasing a feature that is useful to our
> >>> userbase because it means that we worry about having too many
> versions, it
> >>> feels like we are doing something wrong.
> >>>
> >>> (I hate myself for suggesting this, but one *horrible* way of avoiding
> a
> >>> 6.2 while still adding the feature to 6.x is, I guess, simply not
> making
> >>> the attribute "managed" in 6.1.x, just using the context variable for
> the
> >>> prefix... so it can be changed by setting the context variable, but
> there
> >>> is no change in the API)
> >>>
> >>> -- Rob
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> >
> >>> > Robbie
> >>> >
> >>> > On 1 February 2017 at 15:17, Lorenz Quack <[email protected]>
> >>> wrote:
> >>> > > Hello Rabih,
> >>> > >
> >>> > > Unfortunately, the v7 release is still a couple of months away.
> >>> > > Out of curiosity, what is your time-line for when you would like
> this
> >>> > > feature to land?
> >>> > >
> >>> > > We were considering back porting this but there are currently no
> plans
> >>> > for a
> >>> > > 6.2.0 release and as a new feature this is not really fit for a
> bug fix
> >>> > > release (i.e. 6.1.2).
> >>> > > Our limited resources are currently focused on v7 but it does
> involve a
> >>> > fair
> >>> > > amount of work.
> >>> > >
> >>> > > Sorry that this is probably not he answer you were hoping for.
> >>> > >
> >>> > > Kind regards,
> >>> > > Lorenz
> >>> > >
> >>> > >
> >>> > >
> >>> > > On 01/02/17 14:35, Rabih M wrote:
> >>> > >>
> >>> > >> Hello,
> >>> > >>
> >>> > >> The question is in the title.
> >>> > >> I am asking because we are interested in
> >>> > >> https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/QPID-7558
> >>> > >>
> >>> > >> Best regards,
> >>> > >> Rabih
> >>> > >>
> >>> > >
> >>> > >
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