Updated release data. I'd like to get this submitted asap, any mentors happy to sign it off? Or would you guys rather wait a bit longer for more input?
>> 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 January, 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: >> > > >
