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Re: Grizzly ROADMAP: 1.9.x and 2.0 -> Time to speak!

From: Igor Minar <iiminar_at_gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 9 Oct 2009 16:13:31 -0700

On Oct 8, 2009, at 8:48 AM, Jeanfrancois Arcand wrote:

> Salut,
>
> Now that we are *almost* saved from GlassFish work (almost :-)), we
> will eventually have time to come back here and do what we like,
> which is to make the community happy and add new features. I would
> like to start a new thread discussions about where peoples want to
> focus on.
>
> Hubert has done great work on the Deployer and Sebastien on
> annotation support. What's next? I would propose we work on two
> things:
>
> (1) Grizzly 2.0 FCS, with a back to back white paper as a pre-
> requisite for release. I sign up for the white paper :-)
>
> (2) Forward port all the http/http-servlet-XX/Comet/OSGi works to
> Grizzly 2.0
>
> ** Anybody interested to contribute I will give committer privileges
> for free :-) **
>
>
> Now I would like to vote on the following topic:
>
> 1. Should the Servlet Container works be only on top of 2.0? Or
> should we make sure both version are supported?

yes

>
> 2. Should 1.9.19 be *our last* 1.9.x release with new features, and
> then we move to sustaining mode?

yes, except for bugfixing and important glassfish related work

>
> 3. Should we refactor *entirely* the http module API and make sure
> it is aligned with Grizzly 2.0 new design? I'm tempted to refactor
> everything but we will break a lot of applications

yes! the http api isn't very pretty and easy to use.

>
> 4. Gitub or Kenai? For sure we MUST move out of java.net

anything is better than the current situation. Though I still think
that mercurial is easier to use than git, but otherwise both have very
similar features.

>
> 5. Should we drop Cometd support? Cometd.org can be run using
> Grizzly Comet + Atmosphere
>
> If you can reply publicly, please reply to jfarcand_at_apache.org with
> your request/recommendation.

I'd like to see more focus on having cleaner API, more documentation
and making the test suite run faster (e.g. by parallelizing the tests).

cheers,
Igor



>
> Please share your vision :-)
>
> A+
>
> -- Jeanfrancois
>
>
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