WildFly 31 is released
by Brian Stansberry
I'm pleased to announce that WildFly 31.0.0.Final is now available at
https://www.wildfly.org/downloads/.
There's a lot to be happy about in what we've accomplished in the 31 cycle;
I suspect my announcement post at
https://www.wildfly.org/news/2024/01/25/WildFly31-Released/ is my longest
ever. I think it's great how much we've gotten done outside of the main
server code base.
Big thanks in particular to:
Eduardo Martins -- for driving the huge quickstarts enhancements efforts,
and a bunch of other QS improvements.
Paul Ferraro -- for the stability level work, and the new WildFly Core
'subsystem' and 'service' modules.
Jean Francois Denise and Kabir Khan -- for WildFly Glow.
Harald Pehl, Jeff Mesnil, Farah Juma, Ashwin Mehendale, Prarthona Paul,
Wolfgang Knauf for the work on Getting Started and the user guides.
And to all of you for the many other improvements I'm not mentioning here
-- and for making WildFly such a vibrant project.
Best regards,
Brian Stansberry
Principal Architect, Red Hat JBoss EAP
WildFly Project Lead
He/Him/His
10 months, 1 week
Triage of 'Critical' WFLY and WFCORE issues
by Brian Stansberry
Can we do some housekeeping of the open 'Critical' issues in WFCORE and
WFLY?
1) Can the assignees and relevant component leads go through them and
change the priority for any that aren't truly critical?
2) Simultaneously, we can have a discussion here of what we want 'Critical'
to mean going forward. My 2 cents is it needs to have more of a meaning of
'Priority' (which is what the field is), i.e. it gives a clue as to what
needs to be worked on next. And less of a meaning of 'subjective
importance'.
My sense is right now we have a lot of things where 'Critical' means
someone thought it was 'Important' but there is no corresponding priority
to get it done. At some point that calls into question whether it's truly
critical.
For 1) above I'm not asking that we have a big discussion and then people
can review issues. I'm looking for a quick triage to clean up things where
the experts decided 'nah, that's not really critical.' Just try and get rid
of some noise so it's easier for new Critical items to stand out.
Also, in a preview of coming attractions, I expect later this quarter we'll
kick off a more general JIRA housekeeping initiative. This is something
that Alessio Soldano suggested last year, and it's sorely needed, but I
didn't have time to get anything going. But it's a New Year, and my New
Year's Resolution is to tidy this up.
Best regards,
Brian Stansberry
Principal Architect, Red Hat JBoss EAP
WildFly Project Lead
He/Him/His
10 months, 2 weeks