On Saturday, December 14, 2002, at 07:28 AM, Gianugo Rabellino wrote:
I'm not up to date enough to really comment on this, I've read quite a few archive messages, but I still missed a thousand or two. Can someone provide a summary of where things stand?
Oh well... I think that almost all the questions and the topic being addressed are perfect candidates for your opinion. :-) I, for one, would like to know what you think about:
1. releasing 1.1: what's left to do, what can/should be included, how can we fix that annoying Xupdate bug...
AFAIK we have two major areas to work on before release:
1. Finish the XML-RPC driver, which is incomplete ATM.
2. Run through Bugzilla and fix the reported bugs (Xupdate is the bug showstopper here)
2. metadata. We have been discussing a bit about them, but it looks like we can't really find an agreement.
My opinion on this has always been that I'll respect the opinion of others. :-) Last I knew we had two competing proposals, what happened with that?
Well, we have an implementation made by Dave Viner, but looks like there is no consensus in incorporating it. My take on that is that some metadata are much better than any metadata at all, but that's MHO.
3. Xindice 2.0. There have been dome threads about it: what is your opinion on the various issues that have been brought up?So far most of what I've seen in the archive is about Avalon, which is something I'm skeptical about. I agree with James that we should really focus more on improving the actual database engine rather then continuing to refactor the software architecture.
True, but Avalon would help us in that direction, letting us focus on code alone. Stefano already volunteered to bootstrap that, so I'd be +1 on considering it.
However, it's also probably the case that there are people who will be far better able to help in that area then within the core engine so I'm just looking forward to watching how that proceeds and putting what time I can into working on the database internals.
Is there a list somewhere showing what people are currently thinking about 2.0 featurewise?
A good starting point might be
http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?t=103839556100006&r=1&w=2&n=33
http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?t=103839556100006&r=1&w=2&n=11
Ciao,
-- Gianugo
