On 6/22/05, Simon Kitching <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> [AARGH - I hate top-posting!!]
> 
> It certainly seems like email is generally ready for release.
> 
> I think one more RC and a new VOTE thread would be a good idea, as the
> vote thread from december last year really can't be "continued" now :-).
> 
> Besides there are a few minor things that need fixing:
> 
> === website
> * navigation bar contains "CVS" entry (see xdocs/navigation.xml)
> * welcome page:
>   * site welcome page refers to CVS
>   * build --> built
> * in the examples page, "exmaples" --> "examples"
> * I recommend disabling the following maven reports:
>    * changelog
>    * developer activity
>    * file activity
>   These reports are of questionable use. And all date-based selection
>   is stuffed in the apache svn repository anyway, due to cvs imports,
>   so the reports can contain incorrect data.
> 
> === code
> *  Why does method Email.setHeaders take a Hashtable parameter?
>    If this is an attempt to get the Email class to support JVM1.1 it
>    won't work because this class also uses interface List. I would
>    definitely prefer to see this method take a Map.
> *  Shouldn't MultiPartEmail.addPart return a MultiPartEmail object?
> *  One of the MultiPartEmail.addPart methods is missing javadoc.
> 
> === downloads
> * the project.properties file has no "maven.compile.target" entry
>   so what JVMs are supported will depend on what JVM was used to
>   build the release. What exactly is the minimum JVM supported?
>   Whatever it is, I would recommend adding maven.compile.target
>   (and maven.compile.source) to the project.properties file *and*
>   building the release with that JVM too.

All sound good.

> * There is no RELEASE-NOTES.txt file.

What usually goes in that for 1.0?

> === other
> I also see that Eric Pugh created a "tags/EMAIL_1_0" tag with message
> "Release 1.0 based on voted 1.0 RC4" but I think this should be deleted.
+1.

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