On Mon, Dec 14, 2009 at 12:03 AM, Henri Yandell <flame...@gmail.com> wrote: > 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?
Noting tired Brit who thought he was replying to Paul not Sebb. Ack. Hen --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@commons.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@commons.apache.org
