Looks good thanks Tom, can we push back the release to January, need more time to allow for voting.
Cheers, Peter. ----- Original message ----- > Updated three most important things > > On Mon, Dec 6, 2010 at 9:31 AM, Tom Hobbs <[email protected]> wrote: > > Here's the status report for December. > > > > Comments? > > > > River > > > > Apache River is a distributed computing architecture, based on the JSK > > Starter Kit Source code donated by Sun Microsystems, for the Jini > > Specification. While generally referred to as a Service Architecture, > > it might be more easily explained to those familiar with Dependency > > Injection as a Protocol Independent, Distributed Dependency Injection > > Architecture, suited to both hardware and software. Instead of > > depending on Protocols directly for communication, everything is > > abstracted behind a Java interface, allowing protocols and > > implementations to be swapped freely, programming languages other than > > Java can also participate. > > > > The activity on the River project continues to grow and is seeing > > renewed interest from people who had previously fallen silent. The > > current development team feels that we are ready to start the > > Graduation process to a TLP. > > > > The next release 2.2.0 is scheduled for December, this is likely to be > > a bug-fix release and will hopefully be our last release before > > graduation. > > > > New functionality and enhancements has currently been suspended in > > favour of bug-fixes and the work towards graduation. The following > > rough road map has been provisionally agreed; > > > > * Graduation as top level project river.apache.org > > * Rename com.sun namespace to org.apache.river > > * Modular build & JDK policy > > > > After this has been completed then the previous work on new > > functionality and enhancements will be picked up again. These will > > include; > > * Dynamic Grants at Runtime, based on CodeSource, Code Signer > > Certificate chains , ProtectionDomain or ClassLoader. > > * Dynamic Revoke of Grant's at Runtime > > * Securing proxy downloads and unmarshalling > > > > Additionally work is continuing on the build and test environments. > > Bug fixes are helping meaning more of the QA tests are passing, which > > allows us to enable more of the test categories thus increasing test > > coverage. More of the JTREG tests are also passing after fixes to the > > environment and the tests themselves. > > > > The website has been moved to the new Apache CMS environment and has > > seen further increases in the level of documentation available, > > particular articles which are useful to people starting to use and > > develop River. > > > > 3 most important issues: > > Graduation > > JVM version support post graduation > > QA test performance and organization > > > > Signed off by mentor: > >
