It's worthless unless we release it. :( A similar example is that I don't see why we can't have lang4 code appearing in the lang3 jar; and I don't see why we would have to be backwards compat for the lang4 code while on the lang3 branch.
I agree it's novel, but lang is too core to other projects to not try something :) Hen On Thu, Apr 7, 2011 at 8:34 AM, Stephen Colebourne <scolebou...@joda.org> wrote: > I'd agree with an alpha area, but I don't agree with releasing it. > [lang] is too core to other projects to be doing things like that IMO. > > Stephen > > > On 7 April 2011 07:35, Henri Yandell <flame...@gmail.com> wrote: >> I've been pondering the tension between stability and innovation. >> >> Once 3.0 is out I'd like to add an alpha subpackage: >> >> org.apache.commons.lang-alpha >> >> It's specifically a location of code that is: >> >> a) Not linked to a version. When we move to 4.0 it does not change. >> b) Does not offer backwards compatibility. Classes move out of >> lang-alpha and into lang3 (or lang4 etc). >> >> Not all new code goes there, but much does. The 'contrib' package of >> an open source project is an essential aspect of allowing the project >> to innovate without burden. If I can convince us to achieve a goal of >> frequent releases, we'll need to be able to release code that we're >> not 100% sure about into our stable packages. It doesn't solve the >> cataclysmic changes (moving to Java 5.0 for example), but it handles a >> lot of items. >> >> I'm not wedded to the alpha name btw; would love to hear of a better one. >> >> A side effect that I like is that people can monitor the changes to >> the alpha package to get a feel for what's coming/what's arrived. >> >> Hen >> >> --------------------------------------------------------------------- >> To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@commons.apache.org >> For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@commons.apache.org >> >> > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@commons.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@commons.apache.org > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@commons.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@commons.apache.org
