Re: [jdee-devel] Time for a (minor) 2.4.1 release?
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From: Paul L. <la...@ma...> - 2013-04-29 14:09:17
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I agree, we're overdue for a release. Shyamal: please proceed when you can and let me know if I can help. We can get on chat and go through it together as well if that's helpful. Re bit rot: I have about as much time to admin the project but not as much time for development. The work that Shymal has been doing by cleaning things up has been great. A while back I put together a todo list of things I thought needed to be done in order to maintain this project easier. For example, there are many aspects of the project that are deprecated and other functionality that isn't used as much that adds clutter. I didn't hear that much back on this so I think to a large degree the project is just not used as much and we've lost interest. If we had more folks using it we'd have more new development and activity. I don't really see a good way to garner a lot of interest in this project and get things moving as things moved before the bigger IDEs matured and became prevalent (i.e. Eclipse) other than fork it and/or seriously modify the project, which I no longer have the time to do--at least for the near future. That said, I do still think there are many that use it (including myself). On Apr 29, 2013, at 4:40 AM, Phillip Lord <phi...@ne...> wrote: > > This would be a superb thing. The last time I wrote Java I did it > without JDE, because I use Java rarely now that it wasn't worth doing a > SVN update. So getting the trunk out would be fantastic. > > Phil > > Shyamal Prasad <sh...@me...> writes: > >> Hi, >> >> Perhaps it's time for a 2.4.1 (minor) release?! >> >> A release will get the trunk code out and go some way in dealing with >> the bit-rot reputation that JDEE is developing (e.g. see >> http://emacswiki.org/emacs/JavaDevelopmentEnvironment). Yes, there are >> no significant new features, but the release should allow everyone to >> reliably use JDEE with GNU Emacs 23/24 and CEDET 1.1. >> >> I already took a pass at updating the Source Forge web site a while ago >> with proposed updates (see svn). Based on recent feedback on the list I >> will clean up the Windows instructions and push it out with this >> proposed release. >> >> If there are no objections or show stopping bugs reported, I will >> proceed with a release on some weekend in mid/late May. >> >> OK? >> >> Cheers! >> Shyamal >> >> PS: If you are using the trunk code with the GNU Emacs' version of CEDET >> (not externally supplied CEDET 1.1) please get r282 or later from trunk >> (I committed r282 today). >> >> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ >> Try New Relic Now & We'll Send You this Cool Shirt >> New Relic is the only SaaS-based application performance monitoring service >> that delivers powerful full stack analytics. Optimize and monitor your >> browser, app, & servers with just a few lines of code. Try New Relic >> and get this awesome Nerd Life shirt! http://p.sf.net/sfu/newrelic_d2d_apr >> _______________________________________________ >> jdee-devel mailing list >> jde...@li... >> https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/jdee-devel >> >> > > -- > Phillip Lord, Phone: +44 (0) 191 222 7827 > Lecturer in Bioinformatics, Email: phi...@ne... > School of Computing Science, http://homepages.cs.ncl.ac.uk/phillip.lord > Room 914 Claremont Tower, skype: russet_apples > Newcastle University, twitter: phillord > NE1 7RU > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Try New Relic Now & We'll Send You this Cool Shirt > New Relic is the only SaaS-based application performance monitoring service > that delivers powerful full stack analytics. Optimize and monitor your > browser, app, & servers with just a few lines of code. Try New Relic > and get this awesome Nerd Life shirt! http://p.sf.net/sfu/newrelic_d2d_apr > _______________________________________________ > jdee-devel mailing list > jde...@li... > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/jdee-devel |