Hi Jukka !

First of all, let me say that I think Jackrabbit 2.0 release would be a perfect 
reason for going public (press). I mut admit I didn't really had a deep look 
into the 2.0 features and improvements compared to 1.3 (and 1.4), but I guess 
there is some good reason to enjoy (I'll check this out later, currently 
working on a deref-in-predicate turnaround).

About 1.4 release of Jackrabbit, I'm less enthusiastic, because I think some 
issues should definitely be addressed, or at least discussed and if the 
decision is to do nothing about them (yet), some damn good reasons should be 
found and organized into a clear and convincing "counter-attack" speech. Why am 
I saying this? Simply because going public means bringing on the project many 
people's attention, and most of them will only notice the problems and 
limitations of the product. And I think there is not enough progress about some 
major issues (administration (checkForReferencesInContent, 
checkForConflictingContent, trivial changes on node types only...) , queries 
(no joins, no dereferencing in predicates,...)).

Jackrabbit 1.4 will definitely be enjoyable, some points are very interesting 
to me, like the configurable lucene indexing, the ocm, and I must miss some 
others, but I don't really think it will be the good version for a press 
release.

Maybe I'm not supposed to answer your mail, as I'm not a member of Day, and 
even not an official Jackrabbit developer, but now you have my point of view, 
whether you want it or not ;)
 
Frédéric Esnault 

-----Message d'origine-----
De : Jukka Zitting [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
Envoyé : vendredi 29 juin 2007 12:33
À : [email protected]
Objet : Jackrabbit press release

Hi,

Apache projects can issue formal press releases when there are some
major new stuff to be announced beyond the normal technical audience.
Press releases are a good way to generate interest within the press,
analysts, and other similar audiences.

Jackrabbit 2.0 with JCR 2.0 support will definitely be a good reason
for doing a press release, but I'm wondering if we should also do a
press release for Jackrabbit 1.4 later this year. It seems like 1.4 is
becoming our coolest release since Jackrabbit 1.0 and the timing would
coincide nicely with ApacheCon US.

WDYT?

BR,

Jukka Zitting

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