Release.Next Planning

This page and subpages capture planning for Release.Next. This is higher-level than specific tasks (linked below).

The current planned release will be Clojure version 1.4. This page is in development and subject to change.

Any bugs that crop up during the 1.4 cycle will be addressed post-haste.

Open Questions

• What is the expected release date?
  • The extended timeline of 1.3 is a motivating factor for much shorter release cycles.

TODO: Attach relevant ticket links

Possible Enhancements and Fixes

User-facing changes

• Enhanced core documentation
  • accuracy and calrification
• Enhanced error messages
  • stack traces?
  • relevant, contextual error message strings
• what's new/changed docs

Clojure core changes

Implementation details

• Conditional compilation
  • Debug builds
    • design page needed
  • more?
• Upgrade of the ASM library
• ASM library abstraction
  • design page needed
• Frames
  • design page needed

Language-level API Changes

• Scopes
  • design page needed
• Distiguishing field access
  • design page needed

Clojure Contrib

• Accurate documentation and listings
  • How to use? How to integrate?
• Jira views for each?
• More libraries rolled in
  • Candidates?
• batteries-included build
• benchmarks

Follow Along in JIRA

TODO: Validate these views and fix problems

• Open / All issues for Release.Next
• Approved Backlog issues are not currently slated for the next release. Please add comments and/or vote up issues important to you!