[Cdk-user] CDK Release

[Egon W. <e.w...@sc...>]

Hi developers and users,

now that Nightly is highly functional [1], we can generate good overview on 
the correctness of CDK classes. I only haven't got the Japitools running yet 
locally. (Rajarshi, can you send me the japi.gz for the previous stable 
release?)

I am working on a release I want to have it finished before I go on holiday in 
two weeks. I will try to have as many as possible modules stable again, 
meaning:
- fully JUnit tested
- no failing JUnit tests (*)
- fully JavaDoc-umented
- no JavaDoc warnings
- no PMD warnings

This will probaly be: interfaces, data, core, standard, datadebug, and 
nonotify. *: there are almost 2500 tests now, of which 3x500 test the modules 
data, datadebug and nonotify.

Except for making sure of the above stableness, I still need to:
- write a human readable changelog [2]
- have a new Nightly server set up [1]

I've given up fixing bugs before this release. The CDK project and library has 
simply become too large for doing this just prior to a release. If we really 
want bugless releases, we have to start setup feature freezes, and have 
serious bug squash sessions every few months, with at least 10-ish people 
online and actively fixing bugs synchronishly. Both developers *and* users.
Don't underestimate what you can contribute as user!

After this release, the API changes to the interfaces as proposed in the wiki 
[3] will be applied. Please do comment on the proposals, as the idea is that 
this new API will be the API for CDK 1.0, which should be released in 
september/october this year.

Egon

1.http://blue.chem.psu.edu/~rajarshi/code/java/nightly/, outdated, but a new 
daily server is being setup.
2.http://wiki.cubic.uni-koeln.de/cdkwiki/doku.php?id=changelog200607
3.http://wiki.cubic.uni-koeln.de/cdkwiki/doku.php?id=refactoringkernelclasses

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