The purpose of this page is to collate the general thoughts on where the community thinks a component should be going. So: What's next for the component... Rewrite? Bugfix release? Give up? Currently only commons-proper components are listed; other components have a goal of trying to get promoted.
One thing to avoid. Don't just say 'release 4.5' because 4.4 is the current version and you presume that'll be the next version. Have an opinion on what's happening etc.
attributes
beanutils
betwixt
chain
cli - release the cli2 package as a replacement to cli; or dump the cli2 package and continue on with cli.
codec
collections - release needed, smaller jar file needed
configuration - release 1.2
daemon
dbcp
dbutils - release 1.1?
digester
A 1.7.1 release with minor fixes. Possibly a 2.0 release with major API changes, using package name o.a.c.digester2 to avoid clashes with existing code (some work already done). See
http://wiki.apache.org/commons/Digester/TODO for further details.
discovery
el
email
feedparser
fileupload - release 1.1
httpclient - release 3.0; deprecate 2.0; release 3.1 (Cookie2 + minor incremental improvements); rewrite HttpClient based on Jakarta HttpComponents
io - more file system utils to handle native calls, URLUtils
jelly
jexl
jxpath
lang - complete text package, exception enhancements, then release
latka - demote to sandbox?
launcher
logging
A 1.1 release (RC cycle currently active) with minor fixes. A 2.0 release split into 1 jar per logging lib ("static binding"), plus a jar containing the "auto-detect" approach currently in use. See logging wiki page for details
math
modeler
net
pool - see: PoolRoadMap
primitives
resources
transaction
validator - see
http://wiki.apache.org/jakarta-commons/Validator14ProjectPlan vfs - release 1.0