I just want to collect opinions how to manage the final release.
Now, it seems 2.1rc1 is relative stable, no real complains, some minor issues but no showstoppers. From that we could say: the current cvs is the final version. point. I don't think we need a rc2.
Should we take before we do the release some actions? Like... ..updating docs ..changing readme ..asking users for testing (which was a success for 2.0.3 and 2.0.4) etc.
Whatever we do, I think a timeframe of two weeks is good, so I suggest a final release on tuesday, 12th.
Carsten
Claiming the user's point of view I say we must definitely fix more bugs. The last time such a call was made we lowered the count to 100 from 130 IIRC. If we now fix/reject/... again 30 bugs I'm satisfied ;-) I know all the work on this is voluntary, but we can't ignore the users.
Some issues:
1. POI: No real problem, but what about the code move to the POI project? They seem to prepare the 2.0 release, so I guess they only have no time at the moment ...
2. XSLTC: Geoff already mentioned it. I know of two heavy bugs in our 2.5.1 XSLTC:
http://nagoya.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=20308 : stylesheet includes, seems to be already fixed in XSLTC CVS.
http://nagoya.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=20381 : top-level variable with document(). This bug is so annoying because the stylesheet "works" in a way, but the cause of the failure is not obvious. And we don't know the reason for it until now: XSLTC command line works, Xalan works. But if we switch from Xalan to XSLTC in Cocoon the stylesheet stops working.
The simplest fix would be to make Xalan the default again, but I don't like this. Has anybody the time and enthusiasm to find out the reason for the bug?
3. Caching: There still exist some bugs related to caching: http://nagoya.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=14348 http://nagoya.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=16958
and maybe also
http://nagoya.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=17924 http://nagoya.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=21213
Independent on this we should add more "Components" for Cocoon on Bugzilla. "Core", "General Components" and "Sitemap Components" is not really helpful I guess.
Joerg
