Remove usages of deprecated classes

2019-01-02 Thread Peter Tran
Hello Geode Dev, As a new contributor reviewing PRs I've learnt that it's acceptable to make a PR that continues to use deprecated classes but not okay to introduce the usage of a deprecated class. I wonder if there should be a systematic way to remove the usage of deprecated classes. I'm concern

Re: Remove usages of deprecated classes

2019-01-02 Thread Ken Howe
I agree that we have too many uses of code deprecated in our own code base. I also agree with the idea that we should not introduce new usages of deprecated classes. So if someone is modifying a class that uses deprecated classes, should the deprecations be refactored out or is it OK to leave th

Exploring using Kotlin for building the "Cluster Management Service"

2019-01-02 Thread Aditya Anchuri
Hi everyone, As part of work on the proposed Cluster Management API ( https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/GEODE/Cluster+Management+Service), some of us have been exploring introducing Kotlin into the codebase. One of the things I personally love about Kotlin is null references being contro