[jboss-dev] Re: Sep/14th cutoff date for component updates in AS5 Beta3

[Brian Stansberry]

I am fine with 2.5 unless in your opinion 2.6 includes some major bug 
fixes that really need to be in AS 5.0.0. My assumption has always been 
that AS 5 would be targeted toward JGroups 2.5, with 2.6 integrated if 
it came out far enough in advance of the AS CR1 that we could properly 
test it.  Only reason for interest in 2.6 is just the normal desire to 
pick up any bug fixes or perf improvements that come along.

Seems we're locking down the libraries for beta3 instead of CR1. That 
doesn't change the above.

AIUI, the main reason for pushing for 2.6 was the API for the combined 
flush for connect+ multiple state transfers we discussed yesterday. That 
doesn't seem like something that can be high impact in AS 5.0.0.  I 
don't see how the different, completely unrelated services that do state 
transfer can coordinate their state transfers, at least not without a 
major effort that there's no bandwidth for.  So, that leaves saving 1 
flush cycle when the channel shared by all the services connects. That 
would be nice, but IMHO not a huge thing worth disrupting your road map 
to get in.

Bela Ban wrote:
> Let me know as soon as possible which version of JGroups you want in AS 
> 5. If you want to stick with 2.5, there is no reason for us to scramble 
> releasing 2.6 and pushing 50% of the features into 2.7...
> Brian ? Dimitris ?
> 
> Bela Ban
> Lead JGroups / Clustering Team
> JBoss - a division of Red Hat
> 


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Brian Stansberry
Lead, AS Clustering
JBoss, a division of Red Hat
brian.stansberry at redhat.com