Matthias,
I am wandering what the current status of your roadmap is?
I've read on some slides that you wanted to go to 1.0 soon?
Yes, we will be working on updating our roadmap very soon (i.e., within
a week)...
If so, what will be the changes to the current version?
As part of the next release we will include a more formal "change notes"
from the 0.8.0-incubator release, but the svn trunk effectively
represents what will be in the next release (e.g., require-bundle
support, framework extension support, improved logging support, etc.).
We still need to determine if any other features will make it into the
roadmap.
I am especially asking in regards to this comparison:
http://www.pierocampanelli.info/articles/2007/01/22/status-of-opensource-osgi-containers
The author noted that the following services are missing:
Core Services: Conditional Permission, Permission Admin
Optional Services: Device Access, Config Admin, Preferences, Metatype,
IOConnector, Initial Provisioning, Declerative Services and XML Parser
What services will definitly be in 1.0?
Well, services and the framework work are reasonably independent. My
vision is to allow each to have independent release cycles (although I
imagine that in the future some people might want to create "Felix
distributions" that aggregate the framework with some services, much
like Linux distributions are created). Thus, I expect the next release
of Felix to include the same set of services as the last release of
Felix, i.e., the shell-related bundles.
I guess the real question is when are we going to have official releases
of our various subprojects? I don't know the answer to that, but we will
need to discuss it when we start preparing our roadmap.
Regarding that comparison, it is still reasonably accurate except for a
few services. We have added Config Admin and Metatype services and
Declarative Services has seen significant improvement (all of these
thanks to Felix Meschberger). So, in short, we have made progress in
both framework functionality and service implementations.
And when will 1.0 come out?
This will depend on the roadmap we will define, but I am hoping in the
next month or two max.
-> richard
