Cool, I'll try and get it uploaded this afternoon then (GMT)
On Mon, Dec 6, 2010 at 2:29 PM, Benson Margulies <[email protected]> wrote: > It's OK with mentor #2, and one mentor is enough. > > I don't think that a formal vote is required. > > On Mon, Dec 6, 2010 at 9:17 AM, Patricia Shanahan <[email protected]> wrote: >> Do we need to vote on this? If so, +1 >> >> Patricia >> >> >> Tom Hobbs wrote: >>> >>> Updated the three next important steps and moved the originals in the >>> body of the report. Added Jukka as the "signed by mentor" >>> >>>>>> 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. >>>>>>> The project has recently been able to run all the categories of the QA >>>>>>> tests which is a significant accomplishment, but it does make for a >>>>>>> rather >>>>>>> long test sequence. They have highlighted several bugs which have been >>>>>>> fixed. 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: >>>>>>> * List future River PMC members and select the initial PMC chair >>>>>>> * Prepare the TLP graduation resolution >>>>>>> * Vote on graduation >>>>>>> >>>>>>> Signed off by mentor: >>>>>>> >>>>>>> Jukka Zitting >>>>> >>> >> >> >
