Sounds good to me. I assume that what we are aiming for here (and the JIRA tasks seem to support this) is an Alpha release that might or might not work completely, but at least has the Apache name on it.
Assuming that is the case -- from a code perspective, I see plenty of nice-to-haves for the Apache Alpha release, but no show-stoppers. Just to put it out there, for the **Beta** release after Alpha, we will need to resolve these issues. Order here is alphabetical. :) - ACL interface - API package - Completion of JSP migration to Stripes, including AJAX - Page versioning - Page deletion - Path-awareness for permissions - URL syntax definitions for 3.0, and completion of legacy URL remapper Again, I don't think any of these issues needs to be done for the shorter-term Alpha release, but if anyone feels differently, now would be a great time to raise your hand. In the meantime, I'll dive into JIRA and start taking on some of the graduation tasks. I do have some short-term personal constraints on my time that will last through the end of June, but I'll do my best. Andrew On Sat, May 23, 2009 at 4:59 PM, Janne Jalkanen <[email protected]> wrote: > Folks, > > we seriously need to graduate. > > Now, we don't have to wait for 3.0 to be completely finished, we can do a > source-only release as well (which hopefully should invite people to start > participating), with no guarantees of the binaries actually working. > > The thing is, if I have to do all the necessary bits on my own, we will > never graduate. So all devs should really participate in this effort, or we > might as well just forget about the whole Apache thing and pack our bags and > go elsewhere. We've been in the incubator long enough. > > The instructions are here: > http://incubator.apache.org/guides/graduation.html > > I've just spent a few hours trying to tweak our build scripts and looking at > our files so that RAT does not complain too much > (http://incubator.apache.org/guides/releasemanagement.html). But there are > quite a few other tidbits which need to be figured out. The first thing we > need is to create JIRA issues for all the missing bits and pieces for our > graduation (from the graduation instructions). Volunteers needed. After > that, we can each grab whatever bits and pieces we can and start graduation. > > I know it's nice to be tweaking the code, but I'm concerned that we've > become too comfortable in the incubation. All of the major changes we were > planning have been done, most of the unit tests run again, and we're > currently spending time cleaning the codebase and trying to make it run. So > we should really try to graduate now. > > /Janne >
