[cross-project-issues-dev] Orbit plans to aggressively remove some "old"

[David M Williams <david_williams@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Yes, Kepler M2 is coming up fast! (+0 date is 9/21)

See Bug 388140
for the gory details, but we in Orbit plan to remove some "old"
logging bundles from _active_ builds for Kepler. This does not effect any
previous "R-build" repositories. We call this "aggressive"
since we normally leave the past 2 or 3 versions in Orbit's active builds,
just in case anyone needs them (and there are several legitimate cases
to use "old bundles"). But in this case, we'd like to have only
the most recent versions in Orbit. 

To be explicit we are talking about removing 

these three at the 0.9.7 level

ch.qos.logback.slf4j
ch.qos.logback.classic
ch.qos.logback.core

and these 5 at the 1.6.1 level

org.slf4j.api            
org.slf4j.ext
org.slf4j.jcl
org.slf4j.jul
org.slf4j.log4j

They all have replacements at a higher level (1.0.0
or 1.0.3 for the former, and 1.6.4 for the latter). 

The reason for this aggressive removal, in brief,
is that a) it is strongly encouraged not to use the older ones ... they
cause complications in builds that are not present when using the newer
ones, and b) they are causing problems in our orbit builds, and while we
could make our Orbit build more complicated to accommodate them, we would
prefer not to do the extra work unless its absolutely required. 

I checked the Kepler M1 common repository and none
of these were in use there. I know that is not a guarantee that it won't
effect an individual Kepler project, so do let us know if this quick and
sudden change effects you. Please comment in bug 388140 and we can discuss
alternatives, if needed. Either restore status quo, have you fetch from
old repositories, or ... make our Orbit build more complicated. 

Thank you,