[hibernate-dev] Hibernate Planning

Hi there, I would like to start a discussion around a few 'management' questions. 1. What shall we do with commons-annotations? commons-annotations became a module of Core (core/trunk/commons-annotations) when we moved Annotations and EntityManager into Core. Emmanuel, raised the question whether it should be really in Core or whether we should keep it seperate as independed library. I could also imagine to just move it back into Annotations itself. I don't think any other project really denpends on it (any project using commons-annotations uses also annotations). This would mean one less module/project to manage. 2. Some changes to Hibernate Search require also changes to Annotations/EntityManager. This raises the question on how we handle releases now that these modules are part of the Core. Will we still do separate releases for these modules or are we from now on just doing 'full' Hibernate releases (meaning we always release Core with all its modules)? This question is especially interesting since we soon will start with JPA 2 development. 3. Who is handling releases? So far Steve was basically driving the Core releases, whereas Emmanuel and I where looking after EntityManager, Annotations and Search. How shall we do it now? 4. What is the current status on Hibernate 3.5? Is there already a (interim) release planned? It would be great to get some feedback and maybe we should at some stage have a chat. --Hardy