[Tm4j-developers] Towards 0.5

[Kal A. <ka...@te...>]

Hi all,

Its been a while since a TM4J release and I feel that we have made some
major progress that it would be good to get announced and released. I would
like to draw up a list of things to do prior to an 0.5 release. Here is my
shortlist:

	1) Documentation: Just a basic developer's guide and some user docs for the
tools
	2) Stabilise the TMNav application: It has been really buggy for a while -
I've tracked down the cause of most of the error messages generated by
TheBrain SDK and I think that the intermittent crashes are to do with
deadlocks in AWT event processing which it might be possible to fix by
splitting the application into separate top-level windows.
	3) Complete the Provider/Manager interface

I'm going to be travelling and working away for much of this month, but
hopefully will have some time while on the road to work on (1) and (2) and
to make any changes necessary for (3). Once I get back I'll have some free
time to finish off, so I'm tentatively planning on making 0.5 before the end
of the month.

However, this means that a few things will probably not make the cut for
0.5. Such as:
	1) Index of *all* topic map objects by ID
	2) Implementing the duplicate suppression rules of XTM
	3) Implementing a different Open Source-based visualisation for TMNav

(1) and (2) I will try and do if there is time. (3) I'm playing with ideas
for but don't even have a concrete design in mind at this stage, so it is
almost certain to be left undone.

What are peoples thoughts on this ? Are there priority things that I have
missed out ?

Cheers,

Kal