Re: [Springframework-developer] release plan

[Rod J. <rod...@in...>]

I think we're approaching the point where we need a feature freeze for 0.8.
And even for 0.9 and 1.0 I don't think we should be adding a lot more
features.

I think Spring has a lot in it already: people will be more likely to be
irritated by bugs than disappointed about what it doesn't yet do.

Working backwards from 1.0 I see the additions being as follows (divided
into essential, desirable, nice to have):

0.9/1.0
- JDO support (desirable)
- SOAP remoting (essential)
- Mature JMS support with proper tests (desirable)
- ResultSets from StoredProcedure (essential)

0.8
- Documentation
- Website
- All bugs in SF addressed
- RJ to remove Attrib4j dependency until I've decided to make it ahead
properly. (I'll try to do this now.)

I'm sure I've missed some things... Juergen, I partly based this on your
suggestions, does this sound OK to you?

Basically, I think we are just about there for 0.8, codewise. I think we
need to set a target date (perhaps the end of this week?) to do a CVS tag
and build distribution units. In the meantime, we have to deploy all our
apps etc, to make sure we have broken anything.

We also need a proper publicity campaign for our first release: posting to
TSS and any other forums (application-servers.com etc.); word-of-mouth to
colleagues, email signatures... This is very important: a lot of good
technologies don't get adopted because people don't hear of them. Ideas
welcome.

Regards,
Rod


> Hi everyone,
>
> What features are we missing for 0.8, .09 and 1.0? It would help having an
idea of what remains to be done by when. I also suggest we give ourselves
some target dates (soft deadlines) in order to avoid slippage as much as
possible. If Rod could propose dates and features, then every member could
respond with "possible" or "impossible" as far as he/she is concerned.
> Personally, I hope to have the web and JNDI chapters done next week. Next
on the list is EJB. Then AOP and transactions, which I'm afraid are going to
take me some time to do as I have to figure out the code first and do some
background reading. And ditto for the ORM stuff. What features are
absolutely necessary for the different releases?
> I also feel that the website is a major priority, even if it's a first
draft. And we need to get the download sections and docs sections on the
sourceforge site set up. The sf site is our public face right now, and sorry
to say it doesn't look like much.
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