[hibernate-dev] Hibernate ORM : master, metamodel, 4.3 and 5.0

[Steve Ebersole]

Just a quicks heads up about some work Gail and I will be doing in the 
ORM repo today.  Mainly the time has come to transition (back) to 5.0 
development.  We have submitted our passing JPA 2.1 TCK results to 
Oracle, but are still awaiting response back from them; once we get 
approval from them, I will be releasing 4.3 Final.

So the following concrete things will happen in the next few days:

1) I will create a 4.3 branch from the 4.3.0.CR2 tag.  I will use this 
to re-tag 4.3.0.CR2 as-is as 4.3.0.Final (thanks Gail for the idea!).  
After I get 4.3 Final released I will port all the changes between CR2 
and master HEAD to this new 4.3 branch.

2) Gail will work on getting the metamodel branch rebased against 
current master.  After the steps above are complete, we will (ff) merge 
that work to master and push upstream.  At that point master will 
represent 5.0 development.  We will drop metamodel branch.

Let us know any questions/concerns...