Re: [cross-project-issues-dev] Is there a reason to have org.apache.comm

[Scott Lewis <slewis@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Ed,

Ed Willink wrote:
> Hi
>
> Perhaps we should introduce a third party dependencies freeze at M4, 
> encouraging transition to the latest stable version up until then, and 
> giving time to align or fall back as necessary.

I would be +1 for such a freeze. 

I think simple cross-project communication/interaction over shared 
dependencies would be helpful also.  For example, if we/ECF knew in the 
summer/fall of 2009 that this 2nd-order dependency was causing a problem 
for other projects we very well could/would have done something about it 
(e.g. did testing with httpclient 3.1 over commons logging version of 
choice). 

As well, if other projects knew that our reason for staying with 3.1 
(and commons 1.0.4) was that we don't/didn't have enough resources to 
complete work on the httpclient 4.0-based provider (i.e. the 
bug/enhancement) in 3.6 cycle, then perhaps they would have been willing 
to contribute resources to eliminate this problem once and for all (by 
helping to move to httpclient 4.0 and/or some other).

Scott