[jboss-as7-dev] AS7 Arquillian and OSGi

[Andrig Miller]

And just as an aside, we are not supposed to be using SPn as a qualifier for any releases as well.

----- Original Message -----
> From: "Andrew Lee Rubinger" <andrew.rubinger at redhat.com>
> To: jboss-as7-dev at lists.jboss.org
> Sent: Thursday, March 24, 2011 11:09:18 PM
> Subject: [jboss-as7-dev] AS7 Arquillian and OSGi
> I'm looking to upgrade ARQ in AS:
> 
> https://issues.jboss.org/browse/JBAS-8946
> 
> ...but AS is using a fork of Arquillian:
> 
> <version.org.jboss.arquillian>1.0.0.Alpha4.SP9</version.org.jboss.arquillian>
> 
> First, I can't find the source location for this tag. Closest I can
> see is:
> 
> https://github.com/tdiesler/arquillian/commits/1.0.0.Alpha4.SP7
> 
> ...and also there's some ARQ branch:
> 
> https://github.com/arquillian/arquillian/commits/1.0.0.Alpha4-OSGi
> 
> It's possible/probable that I missed some discussion on the reasoning
> behind this, but I want to put a stop to this kind of forking. Yes, I
> know that AS needed a release of ARQ before ARQ was ready for alpha-5.
> 
> AS is in a position to fuel Arquillian development, and at the very
> least if forks are needed in a clutch, they've got to go into the
> authoritative Arquillian repository:
> 
> https://github.com/arquillian/arquillian
> 
> That said, I'm looking to resolve this and bring any changes that are
> demanded by AS back in line with current ARQ upstream/master.
> 
> If you can point me at where the SP9 tag lives, I can start a
> discussion
> w/ Aslak about what we need to do to bring these changes into
> upstream/master. Perhaps some additional layering will be necessary to
> tack on OSGi-specific stuff that shouldn't be in ARQ core, and we
> should
> handle that too.
> 
> But long-term, AS is going to need a version of ARQ that's not forked
> off current development so that we can do drop-in-place upgrades.
> 
> S,
> ALR
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