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[Jcommander-announcements] JCommander Project Status Update - Issue 1 (21 OCT-28 NOV 2005)
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From: Robert E. <re...@gm...> - 2005-11-28 20:45:35
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Dear Members, Following the feature request 1360258 Project status mailing list<http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=3Ddetail&aid=3D1360258&g= roup_id=3D35271&atid=3D413698>( http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=3Ddetail&aid=3D1360258&group_= id=3D35271&atid=3D413698) I thought of providing project status update emails about every couple of weeks. I thought that this would help to keep all team members updated with the overall progresses made on the project in the previous period, outline shor= t term goals for the next period (based on the project plan) and provide miscellaneous project related information. In order for this initiative to be effective I would strongly require your input. Just place comments on the feature request which will remain open fo= r a while. There you should tell what you would like to see in these emails and of course what you would not like :-) 1 Project Events Since this status update is for quite a long period there have been more events in the project's lifetime. There was the 0.6.4 release on October 21. Since than the total number of downloads exceeded the 500 mark, which is a smaller number than for 0.6.3though (almost 800 downloads in one month). First of all, please welcome two new developers into the project which have been active in the past period: mikesg (Mike Grigorov) and anthrax_. Let us wish them all the best! We have also some other new members from which contributions will soon follow. The project's site has been updated to include a Developers page ( http://jcommander.sourceforge.net/developers.html). This is a guide to anyone who wants to checkout and build the project and of course instructions for those wanting to take part in the project. Right on the top of the site's main page a note has been added which doesn'= t directly relate to the project. It relates to Java's future on the desktop and I encourage you to check out those links and vote for the feature requests. Another new feature on the site is the availability of the release road map at http://jcommander.sourceforge.net/staticpages/roadmap.html. There is als= o a forum thread on discussing its contents: http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?thread_id=3D1390741&forum_id=3D11041= 7 . Please provide feedback there. Two important mailing lists have been created: jcommander-forum-notifications and jcommander-tracker-notifications. These both make it easier for developers and all interested parties to keep track of the project's activity. Most of you subscribed to these but those who di= d not it would be nice to do it (please see this link: http://sourceforge.net/mail/?group_id=3D35271 ). Marius and myself have been actively communicating with Mario Ivankovits, the man in charge at Jakarta Commons VFS (please see below the importance o= f VFS). We created the foundations for future collaborations between the JCommander the VFS projects. This will mean design, code and documentation contributions into future VFS releases (1.1+). 2 Past Period Activity 2.1 Overview Probably the most important activity in the project since release 0.6.4 has been the replacement of the old file abstraction layer (Phileas) with a new one (VFS). Phileas has been designed and implemented by Marius and myself some time ago. The idea behind it was to provide a generic interface to files and hide the underlaying implementation details. This allowed transparent treatment of partition files, files in archives, networked file= s etc. This was all good but the effort of maintaining and extending this layer wa= s considerable and once we saw that the VFS project's development has gained speed and reached some respectable milestones for us the switch seemed the best decision. Architecturally VFS and Phileas are close so the transition wasn't that difficult. While the upcoming 1.0 release of VFS lacks some features that Phileas had we plan to contribute those to the VFS project once 0.7.xreleases will be out and VFS 1.1 development starts. 2.2 Features Implemented - *Partial implementation:* 1332929 Swap panels<http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=3Ddetail&aid=3D1332929= &group_id=3D35271&atid=3D413698>. Waits for fix of bug 1351013 - *Partial implementation:* 1300500 Bookmarks Manager<http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=3Ddetail&aid=3D130050= 0&group_id=3D35271&atid=3D413698>. Only "Add" operation is supported. Refresh not done properly yet across = all bookmark panels. - *Partial implementation: *1324295 display/hide tree structure<http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=3Ddetail&aid=3D1324= 295&group_id=3D35271&atid=3D413698> - *Partial implementation: *1340347 Single panel display option<http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=3Ddetail&aid=3D1340347= &group_id=3D35271&atid=3D413698> - 1332673 hide/show file details<http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=3Ddetail&aid=3D133267= 3&group_id=3D35271&atid=3D413698> - *Partial implementation:* 1343987 persistent file selection<http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=3Ddetail&aid=3D1343= 987&group_id=3D35271&atid=3D413698> - 1358481 replace welcome page<http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=3Ddetail&aid=3D1358481&g= roup_id=3D35271&atid=3D413698> - 1289490 Save preferences<http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=3Ddetail&aid=3D12= 89490&group_id=3D35271&atid=3D413698> - 1105815 Add support for zip files<http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=3Ddetail&aid=3D1105815&= group_id=3D35271&atid=3D413698> - 1105819 support for smb<http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=3Ddetail&aid=3D1105819&gr= oup_id=3D35271&atid=3D413698> - 1105820 support for ftp operations<http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=3Ddetail&aid=3D110= 5820&group_id=3D35271&atid=3D413698> - 1105822 display of information at panel level<http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=3Ddetail&aid=3D1105822&= group_id=3D35271&atid=3D413698> - 1114464 add support for zip within zip<http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=3Ddetail&aid=3D1114464&gr= oup_id=3D35271&atid=3D413698> - 1183543 merge/use jakarta vfs<http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=3Ddetail&aid=3D1183543&gr= oup_id=3D35271&atid=3D413698> - 1332673 hide/show file details<http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=3Ddetail&aid=3D133267= 3&group_id=3D35271&atid=3D413698> - 1304666 Add page with build instructions<http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=3Ddetail&aid=3D1= 304666&group_id=3D35271&atid=3D413698> - 1314532 Panel font resize with mousewheel<http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=3Ddetail&aid=3D131= 4532&group_id=3D35271&atid=3D413698> 2.3 Bugs Fixed - 1367756 Accidentally Induced recursive copy<http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=3Ddetail&aid=3D1367756&g= roup_id=3D35271&atid=3D413695> - 1367752 File tab contents restore error when directory deleted<http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=3Ddetail&aid=3D136775= 2&group_id=3D35271&atid=3D413695> - 1099984 All progress display computation<http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=3Ddetail&aid=3D10= 99984&group_id=3D35271&atid=3D413695> - 1350682 Directory refresh not working<http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=3Ddetail&aid=3D135068= 2&group_id=3D35271&atid=3D413695> - 1181243 Configuration save problem for non OS files<http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=3Ddetail&aid=3D1181243&= group_id=3D35271&atid=3D413695> - 1349234 When copying first time, there's no way to close copy window<http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=3Ddetail&aid=3D1349234= &group_id=3D35271&atid=3D413695> - 1329041 wrong panel changes for the parent/root due to focus<http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=3Ddetail&aid=3D1329041&= group_id=3D35271&atid=3D413695> 3 Planned activity First of all we will soon need to ship release 0.7.0. This mainly means implementing the following features: - 1365516 Directory size computation<http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=3Ddetail&aid=3D13= 65516&group_id=3D35271&atid=3D413698> - 1348309 Compute copy average speed in kilobytes<http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=3Ddetail&aid=3D1348= 309&group_id=3D35271&atid=3D413698> - 1343987 persistent file selection<http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=3Ddetail&aid=3D1343= 987&group_id=3D35271&atid=3D413698> - 1343474 Common programs access menu<http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=3Ddetail&aid=3D1343474&g= roup_id=3D35271&atid=3D413698> - 1340347 Single panel display option<http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=3Ddetail&aid=3D1340347= &group_id=3D35271&atid=3D413698> - 1337095 Proper error message on corrupted configuration file<http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=3Ddetail&aid=3D1337095&g= roup_id=3D35271&atid=3D413698> - 1332929 Swap panels<http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=3Ddetail&aid=3D1332929= &group_id=3D35271&atid=3D413698> - 1324295 display/hide tree structure<http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=3Ddetail&aid=3D1324= 295&group_id=3D35271&atid=3D413698> - 1254953 heavy swapping on win32<http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=3Ddetail&aid=3D1254953&= group_id=3D35271&atid=3D413698> and fix the following bugs: - 1351013 Loosing control over panel refresh<http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=3Ddetail&aid=3D135101= 3&group_id=3D35271&atid=3D413695> - 1340749 Jcmd fails to load if invalid conf file found<http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=3Ddetail&aid=3D1340749&= group_id=3D35271&atid=3D413695> - 1340286 selecting all objects in the FileTable adds empty rows<http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=3Ddetail&aid=3D1340286&g= roup_id=3D35271&atid=3D413695> - 1334782 Selection with INS keeps repeating after selecting last item<http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=3Ddetail&aid=3D1334782&g= roup_id=3D35271&atid=3D413695> - 1334778 Moving a file/dir takes the same time as copying it<http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=3Ddetail&aid=3D1334778&gro= up_id=3D35271&atid=3D413695> - 1317940 selectAll doesn't work for long directories<http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=3Ddetail&aid=3D13= 17940&group_id=3D35271&atid=3D413695> - 1334678 Entering a directory and going back loses selection<http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=3Ddetail&aid=3D1334= 678&group_id=3D35271&atid=3D413695> - 1368533 Overwrite of files that were meanwhile deleted<http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=3Ddetail&aid=3D136853= 3&group_id=3D35271&atid=3D413695> This is quite some work left but I would like to have as many of these implemented. Actually I find the bugs as the most important ones. If required some of the features might be postponed to 0.7.5. We need to focus on the overall quality of JCommander since more and more people are finding out about it and we really should not deceive on the quality part. I recently started a parallel activity in which I could use some help. Ther= e are quite some Java desktop tools related to files and operations on files. Just a few examples: - Split It - http://in.geocities.com/onlyjava2003/splitit.htm - Capivara - http://capivara.sourceforge.net/ - JDiskReport - http://www.jgoodies.com/freeware/jdiskreport/ - JPathReport - http://www.jgoodies.com/freeware/jpathreport/index.html What I'm doing is trying to contact some of the authors and propose a collaboration so that their tool to also become a JCommander plugin. This activity is of course with a certain success ratio, but I think that it is worth a try. If you find other tools that could fit into this profile I would ask you to let me know. In fact let's discuss these here in this foru= m thread: http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?thread_id=3D1392846&forum_id=3D11041= 7 4 Final Words It is time for me to end this marathon mail. Once these mails will be more frequent their size is supposed to radically decrease. Once again, please provide feedback on the issues discussed in this mail so that we can establish a close communication. Questions are always welcome s= o please make a reply to this mail and let us know what you think on the exposed issues. I wish you all happy coding! :-) Regards, Robert |
