[OpenLayers-Dev] OpenLayers 2.10 versus 3.0

[christopher.schmidt at nokia.com]

On Jun 15, 2010, at 2:08 AM, ext Roald de Wit wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> FWIW: I'd be happy for OL to move to a 3.0 release at some stage. This 
> would allow us moving forward without having to worry about breaking the 
> API. Parallel to that, I assume we would need to keep the 2.x series 
> alive for some time (6 - 12 months?) for people to get comfortable with 
> the new 3.x series.

Given our current release schedule (once every year), there is no reason
that we would need to plan to do another 2.x release after we went to 
3.0.

> Currently OL is pretty solid and stable. It will take a while before the 
> 3.x series will get to that point and I assume quite a few people will 
> wait until it is stable enough for them to migrate their app(s).

Then they can keep using 2.9.

> So, why not start a 3.x branch for the edgy stuff and backport bug fixes 
> into 2.x instead of choosing either 3.x or 2.x?

Backporting into a 2.x branch seems like extra work for little benefit
to me.

-- Chris

> Regards,
> 
> Roald
> 
> On 15/06/10 15:48, Bart van den Eijnden (OSGIS) wrote:
>> Hi list,
>> 
>> a discussion that seems to be coming back is will we ever do an OpenLayers
>> 3.0 or will we continue with the 2.X series. It recently came up here
>> again:
>> 
>> http://trac.openlayers.org/ticket/2619#comment:13
>> 
>> So what is your opinion on this?
>> 
>> Personally I am in favour of doing a 3.0 release, but I am not sure how
>> others feel.
>> 
>> If we plan to do a 3.0, can we have a meeting in Barcelona to discuss the
>> direction?
>> 
>> Best regards,
>> Bart
>> 
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Regards,
-- 
Christopher Schmidt
Nokia