Re: [Webwork-devel] release status

[Bill B. <bi...@pr...>]

Hello,

There really should be another RC release.  If all goes well, release 1.0
a week or so later.  After updating from CVS late yesterday, found all
kinds of problems with broken links to the examples (need to be prefixed
with example/) and duplicated files, some in the example directory and
some in the main directory.  

Issues making it difficult for new users:
* Properties files exist only in webwork.jar.  If you want to see what's
in them, you have to go hunting around through the source tree to find
them.  All these files should really be deployed to WEB-INF/classes as
well.  This allows people to more easily experiment by changing the
existing files.
* The source to the examples isn't readily available from the deployed web
app.  It would be much better if the example code could be rebuilt from
within the deployed web app.

All of these issues can be solved fairly easily with some modifications to
the build.xml.  It would make for a much better first impression for those
new to WW.

As far is the docs go, the Action API is the cornerstone of WW.  It really
needs to be documented for 1.0.  To get the ball rolling on this could
someone at least post a list of items that ought to be covered?  I'd be
willing to rework it into XML and sumbit a patch.  At least that would
provide a place to start.

-Bill

Matt Baldree wrote:
> 
> I thought WW was going to be released on the 15th. What is the delay? I
> think we need to go ahead and get the release out so we can move forward
> with 1.1. I think many people are waiting for the release. Any sections in
> the documentation that are blank should be commented out to be finished
> later or removed all together.
> 
> -Matt