[weld-dev] Potential Weld maintenance release

[Brian Leathem]

Hello Weld devs,

I am under the understanding that the next Weld release will be Weld 
1.2, with potential SPI changes.  I am writing to ask about the 
possibility of more frequent weld maintenance releases, using the same 
SPI.  This would greatly benefit the Seam 3.0 release, as there are a 
couple of modules that currently do not work as expected due to bugs in 
Weld.  Specifically:

WELD-846 - Incorrect handling of cyclic dependencies between 
BeanDeploymentArchives
      causes: SEAMFACES-82, no injection in JSF Converters/Validators
WELD-833 - ConcurrentModificationException while deactivating conversations
      renders Seam Wicket unusable
and potentially:
WELD-855 - Error while catching NonexistentConversationException with 
Seam Faces/Catch
      causes: SEAMCATCH-46

Some of these issues have been already resolved in Weld, and can be 
worked around by using a Weld SNAPSHOT.  However, it is probable that 
more issues will arise as more people start using Seam 3, and a quick 
turnaround on Weld releases would help greatly with user acceptance of 
Seam 3.  It would also bode well for containers that were quick to adopt 
the Weld maintenance releases.

If there is any more details I can provide, or further strengthening of 
the above arguments, please let me know.

Regards,
Brian Leathem
Seam Faces - Module Lead