Executive Summary: Ed asks for dev list discussion of significant
changes, such as moving API classes from jsf-api/src/main/java.
Details:
>>>>> On Tue, 31 Jan 2017 14:31:07 -0700, manfred riem <manfred.riem_at_oracle.com> said:
MR> Hi all,
MR> The MOJARRA_2_3X_ROLLING branch has been created and going forward all
MR> the remaining JSF 2.3 work
MR> and the JSF 2.3.x maintenance will be done in that branch.
MR> The trunk is now open again and its target is JSF.next.
Hello Mojarra Developers,
I know there has not been much traffic on this list in the past couple
years, but now that JSF 2.3 is nearly done, perhaps we may see more
implementation-only traffic.
To that end, I have to say I was taken by surprise when I went to
backport the removal of the UIWebsocket "port" property from the 2.3
branch to master, only to find that the API classes have been moved from
their home in jsf-api/src/main/java, where they have been for at least
the last seven years.
Apparently this change was done in commit b230fe4.
Now, as you all know, I'm all for transparency and empowerment, but I
think such sigfinicant changes should at least be announced and maybe
discussed before being made. For example, the build logic that
generates the JSF API jar will now need to be changed before any further
official generation of the javax.faces:javax.faces-api jar after 2.3.
I'd like to re-establish a policy of discussion here on the dev list for
such large changes. For example: any move to roll back away from the
long standing process of using code generation to generate the tag
handlers and such needs to be discussed before it is made.
I don't want to put the brakes on progress too much, but I think
transparency needs to go both ways.
Thanks,
Ed
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