[jsr-314-open] [admin] JSF 2.1 branch

[Dan Allen]

On Fri, Dec 11, 2009 at 5:26 PM, Ed Burns <Ed.Burns at sun.com> wrote:

> >>>>> On Fri, 11 Dec 2009 17:07:23 -0500, Dan Allen <dan.j.allen at gmail.com>
> said:
>
> DA> At the EG meeting, we discussed creating a JSF 2.1 branch. To our
> surpirse,
> DA> we learned that this branch has already been created:
>
> DA>
> https://mojarra.dev.java.net/source/browse/mojarra/branches/2_1_BRANCH/
>
> DA> But Jim informed us that while it exists, it hasn't been updated in a
> while.
>
> DA> Given how much collaborative development happens on JSF, I wonder
> whether it
> DA> would be reasonable to request that we use a distributed system for
> DA> prototyping (not necessarily that Mojarra has to move). Project Kenai
> is the
> DA> supported distributed revision "forge" inside of Sun, and that would be
> DA> accetable, though I will mention that Seam is looking to move to Git at
> DA> Github.com, so we are partial to Git.
>
> DA> So, before you work to update the branch, Jim, is there any chance we
> could
> DA> do forks at Kenai? http://kenai.com/ Otherwise, we would like to
> request
> DA> that the branch be updated.
>
> My plan was to merge the branch back into HEAD and do the work there.
>

Oh. But isn't it better to prototype large changes in branches? (Like file
upload) That way we can commit, share, stomp on it, etc without breaking the
HEAD.

-Dan

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