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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