[wildfly-dev] Shift in WildFly 19 schedule, alignment with MicroProfile 3.3

[Brian Stansberry]

On Wed, Jan 29, 2020 at 7:19 PM James Perkins <jperkins at redhat.com> wrote:

> Hi Brian,
>
> +1 from me with the question below on point 2.
>
> On Wed, Jan 29, 2020 at 9:42 AM Brian Stansberry <
> brian.stansberry at redhat.com> wrote:
>
>> In my announcement of the WildFly 19 Beta1 release I said that we'd
>> likely delay the Final release a bit to evaluate the possibility of
>> supporting MicroProfile 3.3, which is due out in February.  Our
>> investigations of that are looking favorable, so I'd like to propose the
>> following:
>>
>> 1) Delay the WildFly 19 Final release until shortly after the
>> approximately Feb 18 MicroProfile 3.3 release in order to bring it in.
>>
>> 2) We make next Fri Feb 7 the cutoff for having other changes for 19
>> merged into master. For changes going into WildFly Core the cutoff would be
>> next Tue Feb 4.
>>
>
> Does this mean features or just bug fixes?
>

I'd say just bug fixes, with possible consideration for a feature if
there's a very strong case it needs to be in. But in general I think we're
done with features other than MP 3.3.

>
>
>>
>> 3) On Feb 7 create a 19.x branch that we will use for the MicroProfile
>> 3.3 work. WildFly 19 would be released from this branch.
>>
>> 4) This means from that point the master branch would be open for work on
>> WildFly 20.
>>
>> 5) Any very high priority bug fixes we identify before 19 Final we would
>> also port to 19.x. But the goal should be to have anything we know of now
>> in before we create the branch.
>>
>> 6) If we hit some issue that makes it look like getting 3.3 in would go
>> past Feb we can reset and release WF 19 with MicroProfile 3.2.
>>
>> Best regards,
>> Brian
>>
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>
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> James R. Perkins
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Brian Stansberry
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