[opencms-dev] OpenCMS 8 Release: any news?

[Michael Emmerich]

Hello Marc,

> I went through some slides again and I must have missed the Q4 somehow
> or mixed it with the upcoming Eclipse release :-D
>
> Anyway, there is another important question:
> The mailing-list archive didnt give me any results on the keyword
> GENERIC and I am very interested in the actual state regarding this
> issue? At the OpenCms-Days the question was if OpenCms should stick with
> the current method signatures for backward compatibility or use new
> features like Generics, but I couldnt find any results on that poll.

Regarding the use of Generics, there will will be soem kind of tradeoff 
between using them and not changeing the API too much for compatibility 
reasons.

> So I browsed the CVS-Head and I couldnt find any new signatures with
> Generics. Neither about the mentioned JPA DB-Drivers.

The current CVS head contains fixes/additions for the last OpenCms 
release 7.5.2. This is not the code that will become OpenCms 8 later 
this year. The development code has not released to the public so far.

> Can you give some update on that matter please? Have some features been
> dropped?

Actually, I cannot say which features of our OpenCms wishlist will it 
make into the final release. If you read the slides of the OpenCms Days 
carefully, you see what the main focus of OpenCms 8 will be. Everything 
else depends on the time that is still available.



Kind regards,
Michael Emmerich

> regards
> -- Marc
>
> Am 08.06.2010 16:14, schrieb Michael Emmerich:
>> Hello Marc,
>>
>> as it was presented in the OpenCms Days 2009, it is planned to release
>> OpenCms 8 in Q4 of 2010.
>>
>> Development of OpenCms 8 is in schedule, so things look good for Q4.
>>
>> And of course, it will be the best OpenCms ever... :)
>>
>> Kind Regards,
>> Michael.
>>
>> Am 07.06.2010 18:49, schrieb Marc:
>>
>>> Hello Everyone
>>>
>>> I am looking forward to the new OpenCMS 8 release and so I was searching
>>> the known places (Wiki, Website, PDFs) for news about this release.
>>> Unfortunately the only information I can find is the PDF from the
>>> OpenCMS-Days 2009 where a roadmap has been published (the other sources
>>> point to the same pdf) which says that the financing of the project
>>> hasnt been secured at that point.
>>>
>>> So I am asking here if anybody - maybe someone from Alkacon ;) - can
>>> give a more detailed information? Is the releasedate this July still
>>> valid? Are there any features that have been dropped?
>>>
>>> I would like to start some bigger projects and I am tempted to wait for
>>> version 8 due to features like Content-Repository and a new DB-Layer (JPA?).
>>>
>>> regards
>>> --Marc
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
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Kind Regards,
Michael.

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Michael Emmerich

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