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[jsr372-experts mirror] [jsr372-experts] Re: Some concerns about EG activity

From: Kito Mann <kito.mann_at_virtua.com>
Date: Fri, 15 Jan 2016 09:42:30 -0500

Hello everyone,

Sorry I'm so late to the party, but I think it's safe to say the EG has
overall been pretty quiet. Honestly, I think it's because no one has a lot
of time available, including the spec leads. That being said, we've got to
continue to move forward, and I'm glad that Arjan and Bauke have been
pushing so hard.

Has anyone thought about creating a Slack channel instead of IRC? I'm fine
with IRC, but Slack is hipper these days so we might get some more
interest. Either, way, some sort of bi-weekly meeting is an excellent idea.
My guess is sometime early in the morning (PT) would work.

Ed and Manfred, it would help if you could remind us what everyone's
assignments are; I don't think everything is in JIRA (please correct me if
I'm wrong). I know I have an issue related to synchronizing tokens on my
plate.

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On Wed, Dec 9, 2015 at 9:53 AM, arjan tijms <arjan.tijms_at_gmail.com> wrote:

> 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
>
>
>