Eep! Didn't realize, or forgot, that I'm blocking the release. Okay. I'll release 1.2 by Sunday.
Then I'd support Lieven's suggestion to make it the minimum for 1.8. I would also recommend it as the suggested version for 1.7 (and keep 0.7 as the minimum, I guess) Cheers, -g On Jan 3, 2013 2:27 PM, "Lieven Govaerts" <l...@apache.org> wrote: > Hi Mike, > > In short: for me serf 1.2.0 should be the minimum version. Its release > blocks on gstein for now, but I'm ready to release it in time for svn > 1.8.0. > > On Thu, Jan 3, 2013 at 5:02 PM, C. Michael Pilato <cmpil...@collab.net> > wrote: > > Hey, all. I'd like to get a sense of what we're targeting in terms of > > minimum required Serf library versions for Subversion 1.8. > > > > First, the status quo: > > > > - In Subversion 1.7, we require Serf 0.7.1 or better. > > - Currently on the trunk, we require Serf 1.0.0 or better. > > > > In reviewing the changes released in Serf since its 1.0.0 release (which > is > > everything up to and including the current 1.1.1 version), I see a > number of > > them that stand out as must-haves for Subversion's needs, especially as > > ra_serf becomes the sole DAV RA implementation. I also examined the > > as-yet-unreleased changes currently queued for Serf 1.1.2, but don't spot > > anything that's mission-critical there. So, at a minimum, I'd like to > > propose that we further bump the minimum required Serf version to 1.1.1 > on > > trunk (and by extension, for Subversion 1.8). > > I don't think there will be a 1.1.2 release. > > > Now, it appears that Lieven & Co. are prepping for a Serf 1.2.0 release > > Soon(tm). There have been quite a few improvements made in 1.2.0 versus > > 1.1.0, but I didn't quickly spot any that screamed out > > "omigosh-we-must-have-them-now-now-now!" Still, someone closer to the > > project would be able to better evaluate whether 1.2.0 should instead be > the > > targeted requirement for Subversion 1.8. > > Most of the changes planned for 1.2.0 where made based on > issues/requests from the Subversion project. There are some changes, > e.g. the Kerberos authentication handling, that are needed to make > Subversion work in certain (esp. Windows) environments: > https://code.google.com/p/serf/source/detail?r=1711 > > > Of course, 1.2.0 hasn't been released yet, so if that's our target, then > > this community needs to recognize that we have a 1.8 blocker that's not > > *directly* in our hands to control. We might have to start coughing up > € to > > pay Lieven's bar tab or something. :-) > > Well, you can also cough up $'s for gstein's bar tab, but I understand > why you picked me! :) > > Anyways, my plan was to make serf 1.2.0 available when svn 1.8.x > branches, or sooner. I'm waiting a bit with the release because Greg > wants to review the new API first, so I hope he has some time soon. > > Lieven >
