Release of SLF4J 1.5.9.RC1

[Ceki Gulcu]

October 29th, 2009 - Release of SLF4J 1.5.9.RC1

Hello all,

I am happy to announce the immediate availability of SLF4J version
1.5.9.RC1, consisting of bug fixes and minor enhancements. It is
totally compatible with SLF4J version 1.5.8. However, the slf4j-ext
module ships with a new package called org.slf4j.cal10n which adds
localized/internationalized logging support as a thin layer built upon
the CAL10N API.

Please refer to the the news page for precise details.

   http://www.slf4j.org/news.html

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[rgoers]

Why are you doing a release of a release candidate?

Ralph

On Oct 29, 2009, at 11:47 AM, Ceki Gulcu wrote:

> October 29th, 2009 - Release of SLF4J 1.5.9.RC1
>
> Hello all,
>
> I am happy to announce the immediate availability of SLF4J version
> 1.5.9.RC1, consisting of bug fixes and minor enhancements. It is
> totally compatible with SLF4J version 1.5.8. However, the slf4j-ext
> module ships with a new package called org.slf4j.cal10n which adds
> localized/internationalized logging support as a thin layer built upon
> the CAL10N API.
>
> Please refer to the the news page for precise details.
>
>  http://www.slf4j.org/news.html
>
> You can download SLF4J, including full source code, class files and
> documentation on our download page, shown below.
>
>   http://www.slf4j.org/download.html
>
> You can receive SLF4J related announcements by subscribing to the
> SLF4J announce mailing list. To subscribe to SLF4J-announce list,
> please visit the following URL.
>
>   http://www.slf4j.org/mailman/listinfo/announce
>
> --  
> Ceki Gülcü
> Logback: The reliable, generic, fast and flexible logging framework  
> for Java.
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[Ceki Gulcu]

Hi there,

If the question is why a release candidate and not just 1.5.9, then the answer
is that I wanted to get input on the cal10n api and slf4j use of it before
making an official release. This made sense for 1.5.9-rc0. For 1.5.9.rc1, the
reasoning is somewhat doubtful, I must concede.

If the question is why release a release candidate, what else do you propose? If
the rc is not made available publicly, it would miss the point of the exercise,
wouldn't it?

Cheers,

Ralph Goers wrote:
> Why are you doing a release of a release candidate?
>
> Ralph
>
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[rgoers]

On Oct 29, 2009, at 1:21 PM, Ceki Gulcu wrote:

> Hi there,
>
> If the question is why a release candidate and not just 1.5.9, then  
> the answer is that I wanted to get input on the cal10n api and slf4j  
> use of it before making an official release. This made sense for  
> 1.5.9-rc0. For 1.5.9.rc1, the reasoning is somewhat doubtful, I must  
> concede.
>
> If the question is why release a release candidate, what else do you  
> propose? If the rc is not made available publicly, it would miss the  
> point of the exercise, wouldn't it?
>

I was wondering why you'd do a formal release of a release candidate.  
Typically the announcement for a candidate would say something like  
"Please test it in preparation for the release". If this was not an  
"official" release then the announcement should say so, but it looks  
like it was intended to be from the announcement.

Ralph
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[Joern Huxhorn]

Hi guys,

I'm just a bit confused about the "started work on version 1.5.10"  
part in the tag description.
Are you planning to skip .9, going straight to .10?

Regards,
Joern.

On 29.10.2009, at 21:21, Ceki Gulcu wrote:

> Hi there,
>
> If the question is why a release candidate and not just 1.5.9, then  
> the answer is that I wanted to get input on the cal10n api and slf4j  
> use of it before making an official release. This made sense for  
> 1.5.9-rc0. For 1.5.9.rc1, the reasoning is somewhat doubtful, I must  
> concede.
>
> If the question is why release a release candidate, what else do you  
> propose? If the rc is not made available publicly, it would miss the  
> point of the exercise, wouldn't it?
>
> Cheers,
>
> Ralph Goers wrote:
>> Why are you doing a release of a release candidate?
>> Ralph
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[rgoers]

On Oct 29, 2009, at 4:14 PM, Joern Huxhorn wrote:

> Hi guys,
>
> I'm just a bit confused about the "started work on version 1.5.10"  
> part in the tag description.
> Are you planning to skip .9, going straight to .10?
>
> Regards,
> Joern.
>

That is the impression I got since this was a formal release  
announcement.  I know the SLF4J code in my fork already had a release  
of 1.5.10-SNAPSHOT the last time I merged with Ceki's repo.

Ralph
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[Ceki Gulcu]

Hello,

The version sanity check in LoggerFactory expects an exact match of the version
string. So if the declared version is "1.5.9.RC1", then "1.5.9.RC1" must be in
the internally maintained compatibility list, having 1.5.9 in the list is not
enough. This was fine as long as there were no release candidates. To keep a
long story short, I've just changed the code so that adding 1.5.9 to the list
will cover any variant of 1.5.9.* including 1.5.9-RC0 and 1.5.9.RC1.

In any case, the next official version of SLF4J will be 1.5.10, skipping 1.5.9
which only had release candidates. I hope this shed some light into the matter.
My apologies for the confusion.


Ralph Goers wrote:

>
> On Oct 29, 2009, at 4:14 PM, Joern Huxhorn wrote:
>
>> Hi guys,
>>
>> I'm just a bit confused about the "started work on version 1.5.10"
>> part in the tag description.
>> Are you planning to skip .9, going straight to .10?
>>
>> Regards,
>> Joern.
>>
>
> That is the impression I got since this was a formal release
> announcement.  I know the SLF4J code in my fork already had a release of
> 1.5.10-SNAPSHOT the last time I merged with Ceki's repo.
>
> Ralph
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[Ceki Gulcu]

Ralph Goers wrote:
>
> I was wondering why you'd do a formal release of a release candidate.
> Typically the announcement for a candidate would say something like
> "Please test it in preparation for the release". If this was not an
> "official" release then the announcement should say so, but it looks
> like it was intended to be from the announcement.

Good point. I'll be sure to add such a sentence in the future.

> Ralph

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