Turmoil in Wicket land

The impossible task faced by the Wicket team is finally coming to an end. For months and months work was done on 2 branches (1.3 and 2.0), with a third in maintenance mode (1.2). Three branches is realy too much for a group of volunteers. For the uninitiated: the 1.3 and 2.0 branches differ in one major big way: 2.0 has one extra argument to each and every component. Another large difference is that 2.0 supports generic models. For the rest, most new features and fixes were added to both 1.3 and 2.0.

So what are the options? It seems that the 'constructor change' will be dropped. This means that the 2.0 branch will be abandoned. All other 2.0 only features will be ported to 1.3. Users that use the 2.0 beta code from svn will have to migrate to 1.3.

Is this good news? I think so! If this turns out to be true, the excellent work of the Wicketeers will be much more focused again. Furthermore, all the good new features will be available for Wicket users of all branches!

Update 2007-03-19 And yes, it did turn out to be true:

I think it is time to close the vote and count our blessings. [...]

7 +1 binding votes, [...] 4 abstainees, and no non-binding votes.

This wraps it: we will drop the constructor change and migrate all features of trunk to branch 1.x in 2 releases: everything non-Java 5 goes into 1.3 and java 5 specifics into 1.4

Martijn