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Date: Tue, 03 Mar 2009 13:36:31 -0500
From: John Casey <jdcasey@commonjava.org>
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Subject: Re: Maven 2.1.0 and Doxia
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Are they eagerly awaiting Doxia 1.1?

What I'm wondering is, what are we standing in the way of by not putting 
the latest, greatest Doxia into Maven 2.1.0?

Back in July/August of last year, we talked about pulling back from the 
Doxia upgrade so it could be released and soak into the community for 
awhile, as a substitute for in-depth testing. If Doxia had been released 
as 1.1 back in October, and had been used (or even tried) in the 
interim, a lot of this hand-wringing could be dispensed with. We could 
have bumped the Doxia version first thing in the 2.1.0 release process, 
and gone on our ways...and tested it all along while we fixed other bugs.

If Doxia doesn't really have other consumers, then that means Doxia 
effectively has a slave release cycle, locked to Maven's. In this case, 
releasing early doesn't matter, and the risks are unavoidable when we do 
an upgrade. The risks can be minimized with a large set of tests, but 
they're unavoidable.

I'm just trying to understand sort of why and how we got to this point. 
I'm not as convinced that the work we're doing in 2.1.x is pointless 
because 3.0 is right around the corner. So for me, it still makes sense 
to plan out our migration path WRT Doxia and other libraries in a way 
that will absolutely minimize the possible impact on our users.

-john

Vincent Siveton wrote:
> Hi John,
> 
> 2009/3/3 John Casey <jdcasey@commonjava.org>:
>> Is Maven the only consumer of Doxia? When you say "everything else moving
> 
> AFAIK, Xwiki and m2eclipse are also using Doxia
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Vincent
> 
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