[jboss-as7-dev] Modules and hidden packages

[Brian Stansberry]

On 4/2/13 12:05 PM, David M. Lloyd wrote:
> On 04/02/2013 12:03 PM, Brian Stansberry wrote:
>> On 4/2/13 11:40 AM, David M. Lloyd wrote:
>>> The grim fact is that our logging ID scheme in the AS project is simply
>>> not sustainable.  We have to change it or we will start running into
>>> major problems, especially as we fork and branch things over time, and
>>> even more so as we move towards finer-grained components and start
>>> phasing components in and out.  The rename gives us an opportunity to do
>>> so in a way that *is* sustainable.
>>>
>>> We will not break any existing searches/KB keys, and it would be easy
>>> enough (essential really) to provide a one-time, one-way mapping from
>>> existing codes to future codes (the reverse would be impossible of
>>> course, and undesirable in any case) which would be easy to publish.
>>>
>>
>> Beyond "essentially really", I'd say required as part of the change, and
>> no change patch related to this is accepted unless this is part of it.
>> Then we are getting somewhere. If it's a task to do later it won't get
>> done, or it will become a crap task that some poor unlucky soul is stuck
>> with.
>
> Agreed.
>
>> I also think any logging id conversion should be an AS 9 task. We don't
>> have the bandwidth now.
>
> Sounds fine, with the caveat that once the name is announced, any *new*
> subsystems or components should start with the new scheme to avoid
> needless conversion later on.
>

Sounds good.

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Brian Stansberry
Principal Software Engineer
JBoss by Red Hat