[bv-dev] Happy Holidays and State of the Union

Hi, As the year's end is approaching, I'd like to wish everyone Happy Holidays and a great year 2017! I hope you can relax a bit during the holidays and have a great time with your loved ones. Also let me say a big "thank you" for all your contributions to Bean Validation 2.0; all the proposals, discussions, reviews etc. have been very valuable and are appreciated very much. I think we've made some good progress already, with some easy wins already merged and more complex matters such as type-level constraints having advanced quite a bit. While waiting for some more feedback on the latest revision of the extractor proposal [1], I'm finally getting back to the proposal for java.time support. The API change has already been merged, the RI will follow closely and you can expect a pull request for the spec update very soon. With these two things (value extractors, java.time support) in place at least in some preliminary form, I think we are in good shape for a first preview release of the spec. Is there anything missing that you think should absolutely be in the first preview? My goal is to do the release early in January. I hope we can get some feedback from the wider community based on this. Subsequently, we should pick up some other loose ends such as the validateValues() idea (BVAL-214) and other things like constraint ordering (BVAL-248), separation of message interpolation and message bundle retrieval (BVAL-217) and more. All, thanks again for your efforts with this spec. I'm looking forward to making BV 2.0 happen together with you in 2017! --Gunnar [1] http://lists.jboss.org/pipermail/beanvalidation-dev/2016-December/001140....