[ANNOUNCE] Apache Commons Lang 3.5 Released!

2016-10-18 Thread Benedikt Ritter
The Apache Commons community is happy to announce the availability of Apache Commons Lang 3.5. Apache Commons Lang provides helper utilities for the java.lang API, notably String manipulation methods, basic numerical methods, object reflection, concurrency, creation and serialization and System pr

[ANNOUNCE] Apache Commons Weaver 1.3 Released

2016-10-18 Thread Matt Benson
The Apache Commons Team is pleased to announce the availability of: Apache Commons Weaver 1.3 Apache Commons Weaver provides an easy way to enhance compiled Java classes by generating ("weaving") bytecode into those classes. The release notes can be reviewed at: http://www.apache.org/dist/common

Re: [ALL] Get things moving with "random utilities"

2016-10-18 Thread Bruno P. Kinoshita
Got it. Happy to contribute to an existing component (or a component's module) too. Not sure where would be the best place. Right now the code I'd like to fix is in [lang], used to generate random strings. It is using Java default util Random object, and would be nice to let users change the

Re: [ALL] Get things moving with "random utilities"

2016-10-18 Thread Gary Gregory
To restate my opinion and that of others: It is not a good thing to end up with components Commons Random A, Commons Random B, Commons Random C, and so on. We already have a new Commons Random Something component. Related code should be modules of that component. Gary On Tue, Oct 18, 2016 at 7:18

Re: [ALL] Get things moving with "random utilities"

2016-10-18 Thread Gilles
Hello Bruno. On Sat, 15 Oct 2016 20:57:04 + (UTC), Bruno P. Kinoshita wrote: Hi Gilles, Definitely interested in helping and learning more about random (number|string|object|etc) generators. Are there any specific tasks that others can jump in and help with? In the yet-to-be-named "Commo