Hi Matt, 2013/8/13 Matt Benson <gudnabr...@gmail.com>
> Benedikt, I take your point about prematurely promoted components, and as > one of the primary remaining participants in [functor] I take > responsibility for that; however the promotion was made in good faith only > last-minute discussions about the API (like the suggestion I carefully > offered wrt CSV) held up the release. Hopefully Bruno and I will eventually > get [functor] out the door, at least in time for lamdas in Java 8. > I didn't mean to blame you for anything. I believe we are all here for the greater good ;-) And helping out with functor is definitely on my list right after CSV 1.0. > > Regarding [weaver], it is my personal opinion that the only remaining task > before it can be released is to finish converting its site, which I am > working on. But for anyone who is concerned that we release the right API, > getting involved sooner rather than later would help prevent a repeat of > what happened with [functor]. > The stuff you are doing with weaver really goes beyond my abilities. I guess it would be good to post the discussion about promoting weaver to a broader audience. Maybe [DISCUSS] or [VOTE] will brink more people on the list. Benedikt > > Thanks, > Matt > On Aug 13, 2013 4:02 AM, "Benedikt Ritter" <brit...@apache.org> wrote: > > > I'm not saying that we cannot promote it. I'm just saying that we should > > only promote it if it is ready to be released. > > > > > > 2013/8/13 Romain Manni-Bucau <rmannibu...@gmail.com> > > > > > Hi > > > > > > I think the point with weaver is more that some other apache projects > > (bval > > > for instance) needs it for next release. > > > > > > *Romain Manni-Bucau* > > > *Twitter: @rmannibucau <https://twitter.com/rmannibucau>* > > > *Blog: **http://rmannibucau.wordpress.com/*< > > > http://rmannibucau.wordpress.com/> > > > *LinkedIn: **http://fr.linkedin.com/in/rmannibucau* > > > *Github: https://github.com/rmannibucau* > > > > > > > > > > > > 2013/8/13 Benedikt Ritter <brit...@apache.org> > > > > > > > Hi, > > > > > > > > I haven't been working on weaver so I cannot really comment on it's > > > state. > > > > IMHO it's important that we only promote components to proper that > are > > > very > > > > close to a release. > > > > > > > > We have several components in proper that I think have been promoted > to > > > > early. > > > > Examples are: csv, functor, imaging. > > > > After the first enthusiasm has ceased they are hanging around in > proper > > > > without being released. > > > > > > > > I haven't seen much activity in weaver over the past weeks. How close > > is > > > it > > > > to a release? What has to be done to cut an RC? > > > > > > > > Benedikt > > > > > > > > > > > > 2013/8/11 Matt Benson <gudnabr...@gmail.com> > > > > > > > > > Hi all, > > > > > Hopefully you've noticed that I've been working, as time permits, > > on > > > > the > > > > > [weaver] component in the sandbox. As a reminder, this component > > > (after > > > > an > > > > > exhausting bout of on-list consensus building ;) ), is designed as > a > > > > > general-purpose framework for defining bytecode transformations > that > > > may > > > > be > > > > > applied to a given codebase. Currently a local filesystem-based > > > > > implementation is available which backs both a Maven plugin as well > > as > > > a > > > > > custom Ant library, or "antlib". There are two weaver > > implementations > > > > > available as of now: > > > > > > > > > > * privilizer, which automates the handling of Java SecurityManager > > > > > privileges > > > > > * normalizer, which merges functionally identical anonymous class > > > > > definitions > > > > > > > > > > I feel that this component is now ready to be promoted to proper > and > > > > > released. Does anyone have any concerns they feel should be > > addressed? > > > > > > > > > > Thanks, > > > > > Matt > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > -- > > > > http://people.apache.org/~britter/ > > > > http://www.systemoutprintln.de/ > > > > http://twitter.com/BenediktRitter > > > > http://github.com/britter > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > -- > > http://people.apache.org/~britter/ > > http://www.systemoutprintln.de/ > > http://twitter.com/BenediktRitter > > http://github.com/britter > > > -- http://people.apache.org/~britter/ http://www.systemoutprintln.de/ http://twitter.com/BenediktRitter http://github.com/britter
