I think a more formal project plan (release plan?) would be great. It would be nice to have a regular snapshot/milestone build to be pushing towards. The Xerces-J project does something similar with their releases [1]. Although not quite the same, the intent is similar and the communication to the community is very helpful.
The items that are out on the Wiki now look good to me. I think enabling Java 5 syntax, establishing a test architecture and a general focus on getting a repeatable build system are good initial steps. The next obvious major focus for the class library is attaining Java 5 compliance, especially since Java 6 is quickly coming down the pipe. Perhaps the later iterations can have a module-specific focus for closing the gaps. [1] http://svn.apache.org/viewcvs.cgi/*checkout*/xerces/java/trunk/Xerces2.8.0-R EL_PLAN.html -Nathan -----Original Message----- From: Tim Ellison [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, April 02, 2006 4:01 PM To: harmony-dev Subject: [classlib] Der Plan Looking at our wiki pages[1], people have written a description of the _current_ state of play for a number of class library modules. However, with our new committers eager to get going, a growing number of contributors, and people lurking and wondering where they can help, may I suggest that we try and form a plan for what we want to do over the next, say, six weeks; over and above the usual bug fixing tasks. Like all good plans we'll probably get it wrong in a number of ways ;-) but the idea is that we all agree upon a few themes and goals to ensure we are all working together on subgoals of the project. At regular intervals we should come together with a coherent working system, rather than always having something broken! I expect that some of the themes/goals will be relevant across the whole classlib, and others will be module-specific. I've created a wiki page [2] with a suggestion of how it may look -- but the content comes from everyone so it's not complete. Thoughts? Tim [1] http://wiki.apache.org/harmony/ClassLibrary [2] http://wiki.apache.org/harmony/ClassLibraryPlan -- Tim Ellison ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) IBM Java technology centre, UK. --------------------------------------------------------------------- Terms of use : http://incubator.apache.org/harmony/mailing.html To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] --------------------------------------------------------------------- Terms of use : http://incubator.apache.org/harmony/mailing.html To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
