Will be out for a week, back by may 25th

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Quick note: I will be out on a bit of vacation starting today, back next week.

This means that I will probably not be checking updates or emails, or following up on things. But I will check the accumulated stuff in a week. :)

After this recharging I hope to send some updates on progress towards 2.13,

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[Tatu Saloranta]

Ok so I am back and slowly going through accumulated updates, PRs and so on.

During my time off OSS activities I did not really think much about project future or plans, but I did realize that I may want to scale down scope of 2.13 a bit: I think I'd rather release changes, fixes and annoying Javax-vs-Jakarta BS workarounds, relatively soon. Instead of trying to create a bigger release that takes longer to get out.

This is in big part due to my feeling that I don't have as much time to spend on Jackson work right now.

To that end, the set of things implemented as of:

https://github.com/FasterXML/jackson/wiki/Jackson-Release-2.13

(as well as things in-flight) will be included but not much of "Major focus areas planned".

I also still want to tackle the javax/jakarta problem wrt Jackson JAX-RS Providers, by basically duplicating `jackson-jaxrs-providers` as something like `jackson-jakarta-rs-providers`, with changed dependencies.

And I may look into the feasibility of adding skeletal support for configurability.

But the full rewrite of property discovery seems like a task too far: I find myself with less time to work on Jackson after 2.12. This may change at some point, but I don't want to hold up release of already completed important improvements.

Timeline-wise, doing this might allow Release Candidate(s) to be released in June and actual 2.13.0 sometime in July, in the best case.

WDYT?

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