The Goldfish Chronicles

I spend my days checking up on the issue reports in various projects - the major focus being on Struts/Axis/Spring/Hibernate. So why not do a Commons one on my blog?

Today in Commons there were 5 modified issues. 2 new, 3 notable.

New

38912 - An enhancement discussion on a version of java.util.Service for Commons Lang.

38917 - A bug with much in the way of patches in Commons Daemon - in which the Windows prunsrv prohibits the use of non-alphanumeric names.

Notable

38073 - Continued discussion on a issue in Commons DBCP to do with JNDI problems with the SharedPoolDataSource. It’s a few months old and now seeing some action with DBCP looking release-wards.

38401 - A bug in DurationFormatUtils in Commons Lang. Yu Peng has submitted a patch for a gnarly bug; least I thought it was gnarly when I was looking at how to fix it surgically a couple of nights ago.

38885 - An enhancement for Commons JCI; sounds like it’ll go in once a dependency is updated.

Summary

All in all, a nice haul. Positive outcomes, quick responses.

Ignoring discussions of adjusting things at Jakarta, there’s an interesting surge in life at Jakarta Commons at the moment. The following seem to be in the works:

• Collections 3.1.
• Validator 1.2.1.
• Lang 2.2
• IO 1.2
• Compress 1.0 (needs interested contributors to get promoted out of the sandbox)
• SCXML 1.0 (needs interested contributors to get promoted out of the sandbox)
• Logging 1.1/2.0
• a Pool release
• a DBCP release

And of course I’m trying to get [CLI] back on target, help appreciated - though help is appreciated on any Commons component.