He everyone,
I'd like to share some concerns about the level of activity of this EG.
I'm very happy with the recent proposal by Bauke, but apart from that,
activity currently doesn't seem to be at the same level as it once was.
If you look at the commits in the RI, then it's quite clear that activity
is a little down, even after the master branch was opened again. See
https://github.com/javaserverfaces/mojarra/commits/master
Looking at the amount of actual features being developed for JSF 2.3 (e.g.
actual code), then when JSF 2.3 just started Manfred was doing an amount of
commits for the initial CDI alignment feature, but after approximately
early 2015 I didn't see JSF 2.3 feature commits from him anymore (please
correct me if I'm wrong, I may have missed something).
As for Ed, there were some clarifications during 2015 and one bigger
feature just before JavaOne (validateWholeBean). I'm not entirely sure if
that feature is deemed fully ready wrt to the implementation (the spec
issue is closed though), but after JavaOne no more commits were being done
for it.
As for the various EG members, a variety of issues were assigned to
different people, but I've not yet seen many patches or code commits for
those. The only one that comes to mind is the Java 8 JSR 310 from Josh and
Ed (again, correct me if I missed something).
Now my own activity is down too, so I know I'm to blame as well, but that
still doesn't take away that IMHO activity could improve a little. It's now
almost 2016, so perhaps a good time to reflect on what we have accomplished
last year and what we plan to accomplish next year ;)
Something that may help here is a scheduled bi-weekly IRC chat, just to see
where we stand and were we're heading.
Thoughts?
Kind regards,
Arjan Tijms