I also forgot to mention that Julien provided me summarized form of this report so I was able to finish the report sooner than I expected. Thank you Julien!
Trustin On 10/14/07, Trustin Lee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Here's the July 2007 board report for the Apache MINA project. > (http://mina.apache.org) I apologize for the delayed report; I missed > the first notification message by mistake. Because there's nothing > confidential in this report and it contains a lot of useful > information for users, I will CC our public mailing list, too. Also, > please let us know if we are missing some important point, which will > help us create the road map. > > Releases > ======== > We cut six new minor releases: 1.0.4, 1.0.5, 1.0.6, 1.1.1, 1.1.2 and > 1.1.3. The new releases contain backward-compatible minor > improvements and several bug fixes. We didn't announce the news for > 1.0.6 and 1.1.3, but it's on the way. > > Community > ========= > Mike Heath, long time MINA committer, has shown his continuing > contribution to the project, and has been promoted to be a PMC member. > > Maarten Bosteels, another long time community member and document > contributor, has been added to our committer list. > > Niclas Hedman, the mentor of the FTPServer project in the Incubator, > asked about the possibility of hosting the FTPServer project under > MINA project. All PMC members expressed positive opinion, so we are > going to start a vote for adopting the FTPServer project. > > As the MINA core itself becomes more and more mature, people started > to ask about out-of-the-box protocol codecs for well-known protocols > such as HTTP, FTP, SMTP and ISO 8583 which will potentially boost up > server development in an order of magnitude. We agreed that AsyncWeb > (received software grant), FTPServer (under incubation) and ISO 8583 > (need to contact the existing community) are going to be a great > addition to the project. Jeff Genender, the Geronimo committer and > member, also donated HTTP client module for MINA. Of course, all > these additions should occur in the manageable extent, and we believe > we can. > > Due to the massive class renaming and refactoring, we are getting many > questions about disappeared classes recently. It means much more > people than we expected are using the development branch, and it can > possibly lead to complaints of the users. Releasing 2.0.0-M1, the > first milestone of the next generation of MINA, as soon as possible > will remedy situation. > > Due to the high flexibility and generic API, users often find > themselves difficulty in choosing the right way to implement a > protocol codec. We need to improve documentation on this area to > reduce the ratio of the questions in the mailing list. > > Our web site has been revamped to attractive more people. We also > added a link to Nabble.com mailing list archive for those who are not > used to the mailing list. > > Features > ======== > Julien Vermillard, our most active committer and PMC member, added > preliminary support for APR transport. This means MINA now can > utilize ASF's high-performance and cross-platform library for network > operations. All the existing MINA applications will benefit from this > thanks to the highly abstract nature of MINA API. > > Trustin Lee refactored the trunk massively to make implementing a new > transport very easily. Julien's APR transport will be the first > customer of this change. Thanks to this change, a lot of code > duplication has been removed. > > Maarten Bosteels added MDC injection filter that helps to create more > understandable communication logs. > > A brand new asynchronous HTTP client was contributed by Jeff Genender > and integrated into MINA codebase by Mark Webb > > Issues > ====== > As OSGi framework becomes a buzzword in the market, people keeps > asking about providing OSGi bundles for MINA artifacts. We've been > relying on the Maven 2 plugin provided by the Felix project, but we > dropped the support because it doesn't work pretty well with > multi-project layout. We temporarilly concluded to wait for the > plugin to fix the bug. > > Logging framework, again, arose as an issue. Users seem to have > difficulties configuring SLF4J, so we added a dedicated page for > configuring SLF4J for MINA in our documentation section. > > Most PMC members agreed on moving Niklas's state machine module to the > trunk. Strictly speaking, it doesn't depend on MINA core, but it is > very clear that it is designed to work very well with MINA and > protocol implementation. > > Cheers, > Trustin > -- > what we call human nature is actually human habit > -- > http://gleamynode.net/ > -- > PGP Key ID: 0x0255ECA6 > -- what we call human nature is actually human habit -- http://gleamynode.net/ -- PGP Key ID: 0x0255ECA6
