On Sat, Dec 12, 2009 at 5:18 AM, sebb <seb...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 12/12/2009, Henri Yandell <flame...@gmail.com> wrote: >> Updating status again. >> >> * 103 resolved issues out of 161. From Sep 6 we resolved 38 issues and >> had 30 new ones. >> * 78 contributors involved in the resolved issues, 80 patches and 511 >> comments.
We just hit 66% resolved! And the face on the release portlet is smiley again; I don't know how anyone develops without emoticons to tell them when they need to code :) >> * I believe we now have 3 issues that would benefit from JDK 1.6. Sun >> have "end of life"d Java 1.5, though presumably there are other >> vendors who haven't. Personally I still lean towards becoming 1.6 >> dependent. > > Which are these? > Could LANG still be built to be 1.5 compatible, apart from the code > that uses the 1.6 features? One was the stripAccents method I just added. It's 1.6 dependent, but uses reflection. Another was removing code - in 1.6 we get to remove another chunk of code :) I forget the other one. > > Seems to me that going from a minimum of Java 1.2 for 2.x to Java 1.6 > for lang 3.x is a huge leap. Sun don't support it. Mac no longer ships with it. Equally, I do accept that 1.6 doesn't have as much value as 1.5 does in terms of new APIs for us to write code around. >> * Still lots to work on. Here's a short list of very approachable >> issues (be they simple or tricky): Noting various issues pending Paul Benedict :) Do you have any thoughts on LANG-556? Also, you've reported 7 issues and have 2 assigned to you. Any plans on those? Hen --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@commons.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@commons.apache.org
