On Sat, Nov 1, 2008 at 3:01 AM, Chris Chabot <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> The good news here is that there's some progress being made on the
> REST+OAuth front, i got some great patches from Joseph Smarr for this which
> I'll be working to integrate into php-shindig these days.
> OAuth was the last remaining big blocker, so that's really exciting news!
>
> There's a few small remaining items in JIRA that needs to be fixed before
> php-shindig is completely ready, the tiered message bundle support being
> one, and checking the rss feed makeRequest processor format being another
> that I can think of from the top of my head, their smaller changes though,
> so I'm sure we'll be able to tackle and verify them inside of 2 weeks.
>
> There are a few improvements that would be nice to get in before then, unit
> tests for the new social api implementation being one of them, but none of
> those things are worth considering release-blockers (it's been long enough
> already), however if someone has some time to contribute to that, patches
> are very welcome! :)
>
> How does Nov 17th sound for a possible release date? That would give us 2
> working weeks to finish stuff up
>
> Oh ps, does java-shindig support 3 legged oauth yet? I would hope we'd get
> that in for both the php and java versions in the 1.0 release since that
> seems essential for the full potential of rest / portablecontacts / mobile
> and server to server development.


It's semi-supported, but currently would require a lot of work from
integrators. Louis and Brian were both looking into this recently, and I
don't know how much work would be needed to finish it.


>
>
>   -- Chris
>
> On Sat, Nov 1, 2008 at 12:57 AM, Ian Boston <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > I am ok for a branch, it would be good to check how the release is going
> to
> > be done with the mix of java and php, as I would assume this wont just be
> a
> > tarball of the source tree ?
> >
> > Some blocker issues
> > ------------------------
> > I have a minor concern and some advice needed on SHINDIG-562, which is
> the
> > blocker on the XML format for the RPC interface.
> >
> > There were a reasonable number of issues/bugs in the XSD that was
> released
> > for 0.8.1 in the spec.
> > These will be fixed in 0.9, but if I implement to the 0.8.1 it will
> change
> > on the next release and wont be backwards compatible.
> >
> > I could take what I think the XSD for 0.9 would look like... but thats
> not
> > final, and this will need to replace the BeanXmlConverter and
> > BeanAtomConverter beans that are currently wired in. There is a new
> XStream
> > based converter that is lighter, faster and easier to use that would
> replace
> > these 2 but is not currently wired into the module.
> >
> > Options:
> > 1. Make  SHINDIG-562 major and don't deliver compliant XML in the
> release.
> > 2. Deliver to the 0.8.1 XSD as stands and expect to see major change
> > 3. Deliver to a very early draft of the 0.9 XSD and expect some minor
> > fixes.
> >
> > I would like to do 3, but that might be premature.
> > ---------------------
> >
> > SHINDIG-561, SHINDIG-497 both blockers will be easy once 562 is fixed.
> > ---------------------
> >
> >
> >
> > Ian
> >
> >
> > On 1 Nov 2008, at 02:13, Kevin Brown wrote:
> >
> >  Hi everybody,
> >>
> >> We've sort of waffled on release for a while now, and I'd like to get
> the
> >> ball rolling again. Things seem pretty stable right now, but if we don't
> >> move to get a release the spec process is going to make releasing soon
> >> very
> >> difficult.
> >>
> >> So lets lock down and get released.
> >>
> >> We're pretty much fully 0.8.1 compliant (barring a few minor issues). We
> >> have some of the 0.9 stuff already implemented, but we should not
> consider
> >> that "advertised" yet until it's really finalized and developers start
> >> expecting it.
> >>
> >> So, where do we stand? Can everyone agree on a branch and release two
> >> weeks
> >> from now?
> >>
> >> I'd like this to be the "1.0" release, with the next release including
> >> support for opensocial 0.9. I don't feel that it's a good idea to align
> >> our
> >> versions with the specifications versions, but we should include
> something
> >> in our version string or release notes that makes compatibility obvious.
> >>
> >> Shindig will be 1 year old on December 12th (well, it's technically a
> few
> >> weeks older than that but that's the oldest commit I can find in SVN).
> >> Surely we can get a release out before then!
> >>
> >
> >
>

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