Re: How manay milestones before 3.0 final?

From: Andrus Adamchik (andru..bjectstyle.org)
Date: Mon Mar 30 2009 - 03:58:51 EDT

  • Next message: Andrey Razumovsky: "Re: How manay milestones before 3.0 final?"

    I am +1 on the plan. My availability to do inheritance work is my
    biggest concern though. Somewhat predictably I keep digging myself
    into a deeper and deeper hole with my day job. Running a company and
    being a hacker is obviously incompatible... duh :-/

    Andrus

    On Mar 30, 2009, at 1:08 AM, Aristedes Maniatis wrote:
    > On 30/03/2009, at 4:45 AM, joseph_schmidt7..ahoo.com wrote:
    >
    >>
    >> How many milestone releases are planned before Cayenne 3 going final?
    >> (or an approximate timeframe?)
    >>
    >> It looks that because of the "milestone" label, people can't move
    >> to Cayenne 3 :(.
    >>
    >> I understand that many others use Cayenne 3Mx in production and
    >> that is stable(according to them), but unfortunately such decisions
    >> are not always in the hands of cayenne users, and for those who
    >> decide, "labels" and strict policies are more important :(.
    >
    > This is good timing that you've raised this since I wanted to open
    > this topic as well. Although there are probably a few small bugs
    > that need fixing, 3.0 is ready for production use. However there are
    > bits of the API which are not yet locked down.
    >
    > * generics are almost there, but some difficult parts remain such as
    > SelectQuery.
    > * vertical/horizontal inheritance is close to done
    > * Andrey has been talking about work on merging ROP and server
    > classes (which would be great!)
    >
    > Can I propose that 3.0M6 be released during April and then the
    > release after that be tagged 3.0beta1 at which time the API is
    > locked down and no further non-backward compatible changes made for
    > the life of 3.0. Given a couple of months between M6 and b1 and a
    > few more to iron out any bugs in the beta process, we'd have a
    > release.
    >
    > At that point we'd stop supporting 1.2 (under a policy where we
    > support the current release and the previous one) and new work would
    > go into 3.1.
    >
    > What does the team think of these ideas?
    >
    >
    > Ari Maniatis
    >
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