Thank you, David, for working through all the Jira issues you have for the past few days. It seems that Pluto 1.1 GA is in our sights.
But, from a users standpoint, I'm not sure if releasing Pluto 1.1 without page layout or preferences persistence is such a good thing. It seems to be a step back from Pluto 1.0.1 which has both of those features. Again, I'm thinking about our users, who seem to largely use Pluto for portlet development. Imagine having to reset your page layout and preferences every time you have to restart the server while you are developing a portlet. That would be a real drag. They might not think the upgrade is worth it. It might be too late to do a simple preference persistence implementation (file based?) for Pluto 1.1 GA, but we might want to shoot for some sort of file persistence of the page layout stuff you created which simplifies the publishing process. We also need to make sure the maven and ant deployments work too (see PLUTO-257). Finally, we should look at the remaining outstanding Jira issues. PLUTO-234 particularly troubles me since it is the only testsuite test that fails. I will try to look at this and others as time allows. That's all I can think of right now. Please add your thoughts on this issue. /Craig
