[hibernate-dev] Hibernate Planning

[Hardy Ferentschik]

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