Is 3.0 a major rewrite?

[rreese]

Sorry for posting this under issues. Wasn't sure where else to post.

I've been investigating JForum, using the 2.3.3 code that is being maintained by Andowson Chang. Comparing the code, it looks like major changes are planned in the 3.0 update.

If this is the case, will there be a migration path from 2.3.x to 3.0 or will 3.0 be a completely different animal?

One area the I'm particularly interested in is how much of the API will be exposed so that external apps will be able to manage users and groups externally. I see that there are service classes defined in the services package, but I can't tell which will be exposed. Right now 2.3.3 has mechanisms to add a user and retrieve a list of users. Will 3.0 add to the available methods that can be accessed externally?

Thanks for your work on the application!

[rafaelsteil]

It is a major rewrite, however I'll do my best to keep the database and URLs backward compatible with JForum 2.1.9 (the official latest release, from JForum.net)

[rreese]

Thanks for your reply Rafael. Do you have a target date for when version
3.0 will be in a steady enough state to alpha test?

It looks like you and Rafael Carneiro are the primary developers on the 3.0
stream. Are any of the original team contributing to the 3.0 development?

On Mon, Jan 23, 2012 at 6:31 PM, Rafael Steil <
reply@reply.github.com

wrote:

It is a major rewrite, however I'll do my best to keep the database and
URLs backward compatible with JForum 2.1.9 (the official latest release,
from JForum.net)

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[rafaelsteil]

It is me and Rafael Carneiro so far. It is hard to get people commit to open source projects unless they have a very strong need to do so (which is fine, it has been always like this)

[jbellmann]

Hi Rafael,

as someone else asked in #4, why don't you migrate to Maven? You don't like it?

Eclipse, Netbeans, IDEA all have very good support for Maven build in.

So there would be no issues like #8 maybe.

Cheers
Jörg

[rafaelsteil]

Yes, I have serious issues against Maven. The main problem with #8 is that the user tried to setup the project when it even wasn't working for me.