on 1/15/01 9:52 AM, "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Again - 3.x is the only reason I'm still here, and I want to finish it as
> soon as possible and be free.
In case you missed it, no software is *ever* "done". If you think you can
just do another release and then stop all work on it, then as a volunteer,
that is fine, but as one of the primary core developers, that isn't
acceptable. You have a responsibility and you need to either stick with it
or stop pushing for what you are pushing for.
> If it is done right, it'll be possible to add features ( with a Servlet2.3
> facade as the most important one ) independently - and I'll probably spend
> the time doing that - but without going through this nightmare.
You could do that without a release.
>> more structured, more comments, performance improvements, etc. But it's
>> a *lot* of changes, and from my limited testing it's clear that there
>> are new bugs introduced (no surprise, that's what happens when you do
>
> Mea culpa for the bugs, but most of the changes were just moving code
> around and improving the interface between modules.
He isn't blaming you for the bugs, he is wonder who is going to fix them and
be responsible for the additional releases in the future!
> I have a good percent of the 3.2 commits also - and the architecture is as
> different as 3.2 is from 3.1. As we all know, 3.0 was quite ugly, yet we
> were able to get quite a few people involved ( even if .next was around
> claiming to be the coolest thing ).
>
> And remember that none of the original authors of tomcat are around or
> active - including the one who designed it.
Right, but I (and others) are still here and myself (and others) are still
in a responsible position for supporting this software. Therefore, I'm most
concerned with a developer who makes a huge number of changes and then
announces that he is going to disappear.
> And as I said, I'll not be that far away - I plan to add new modules and
> features, port back some valves, improve modules - I just don't want to
> have to fight every step of the way or get back what I've got so far.
I still don't think you "get it".
-jon
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