[seam-dev] Re: Next Seam release

[Stefano Travelli]

Does this mean that we wouldn't have a 2.1.2 with those 112 issues
closed and the big improvements to REST support?

As a Seam user I hope in a roadmap with a Drools4/jBpm3 Seam 2.1.x
branch where bug fixing could continue for a while.

stefano

2009/3/18 Tom Baeyens <tbaeyens at redhat.com>:
> In my original plan, Pageflow was only targetted after July.
>
> Pete, if one of your people can drive the pageflow migration, then I can be
> there to guide it.  That way we can move it forward to april.
>
> Including jBPM 4 beta as part of your GA might not be a good idea.  jBPM
> database schema will change.  And that could cause serious upgrade problems
> for SEAM users using jBPM.  Also upgrade from jBPM 3 to jBPM 4 will be
> impossible for now.
>
> regards, tom.
>
>
>
> Pete Muir wrote:
>>
>> All,
>>
>> This Drools upgrade, and a probable upgrade to jBPM 4 (happening due to
>> these products needed in the JBoss SOA platform 5, based on EAP 5, which in
>> turn includes Seam) mean that we need to make the release Seam 2.2 (which I
>> said would never happen, I know ;-)
>>
>> Due to the concentration on Web Beans / Seam 3 there hasn't been a huge
>> amount of activity recently, however 2.2 will include:
>>
>> * 112 issues closed (please direct your thanks to Norman here - he has
>> been soldiering away!)
>> * improvements to Seam-gen (Glassfish, IDEA etc.) from Dan
>> * big improvements to REST support - Christian and Jozef
>> * Drools and jBPM upgrades
>>
>> So, I suggest that Norman and Marek (can you coordinate with each other)
>> handle the jBPM upgrade (Tom just released alpha2, and plans the GA in the
>> mid summer) - we should wait until there is a beta out I think for Seam 2.2
>> GA... Tom, any rough guess when this will be?
>>
>> Assuming Tom has a beta, I propose this schedule:
>>
>> Seam 2.2.0 CR1 - Wednesday 22nd April
>> Seam 2.2.0 - Wednesday 13th May
>>
>> Seam 2.2.1 CR1 - Wednesday 17th June
>> Seam 2.2.1 - Wednesday 8th July (hopefully just after the jBPM GA)
>>
>> This will be the first time for time-boxing our releases too, something we
>> are doing for Web Beans, and will do for Seam3.
>>
>> Anne-Louise, could you please comment on how these dates fit with EAP5
>> component freezes? Will we be able to get 2.2.1 in?
>>
>> Thanks!
>>
>> Begin forwarded message:
>>
>>> From: "Stefano Travelli (JIRA)" <jira-events at lists.jboss.org>
>>> Date: 18 March 2009 00:23:22 GMT
>>> To: pete.muir at jboss.org
>>> Subject: [JBoss JIRA] Commented: (JBSEAM-4011) Upgrade Drools framework
>>> integration to version 5
>>>
>>>
>>>   [
>>> https://jira.jboss.org/jira/browse/JBSEAM-4011?page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels:comment-tabpanel&focusedCommentId=12457785#action_12457785
>>> ]
>>>
>>> Stefano Travelli commented on JBSEAM-4011:
>>> ------------------------------------------
>>>
>>> As far as I know, drools 5 is not a drop in replacement of drools 4.0.7.
>>> Lots of dependencies change (mvel and antlr for instance) and most of all
>>> there are several API changes that make Seam after changeset #10170 not
>>> compatible with Drools 4 forcing a migration to Drools 5 in the run time
>>> environment of existing applications.
>>>
>>> At least, a detailed migration path for existing application is needed.
>>> However, even after accomplished all dependencies, rules in my application
>>> don't compile anymore.
>>>
>>> Actually, in my opinion this upgrade is unfitted for a maintenance
>>> release of Seam.
>>>
>>>> Upgrade Drools framework integration to version 5
>>>> -------------------------------------------------
>>>>
>>>>               Key: JBSEAM-4011
>>>>               URL: https://jira.jboss.org/jira/browse/JBSEAM-4011
>>>>           Project: Seam
>>>>        Issue Type: Feature Request
>>>>        Components: Drools
>>>>          Reporter: Marek Novotny
>>>>          Assignee: Marek Novotny
>>>>           Fix For: 2.1.2.CR1
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Upgrade Drools framework integration to current development version of
>>>> Drools 5. It is now available 5.0.0.CR1 version.
>>>
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>>
>> --
>> Pete Muir
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>>
>
> --
> regards, tom.
>
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