Hi, We are near the end of 1.1, it's time to discuss of 1.2 roadmap :)
For this new version, my vision is: - Rewrite all the UI with a full GWT site. I want to migrate to GWT because we need better performance on the UI even if it is correct now. The second point is that with GWT (and Ajax in general) we'll can add nice features (maybe not in 1.2) to users like auto-refresh of small part of pages, users spaces, dynamic chart... And the last point of the GWT choice is all the code is written in java with a verification of all parts by the compiler (properties undeclared or unused, css style doesn't exist,...) so we'll reduce typo errors that we got sometimes. - Externalization of all the configuration. In this version, I want to move all the conf that is actually embedded in application.xml to a file more visible by the user. We can use plexus-registry for this. - Better support of XML-RPC and other remote access (XFire, ...). For this point, I think it would be good to share the code with the GWT part with some services classes that will embed all the "remote" code with security checks - Better support of maven projects. Actually, we detect if a build is required by looking at scm changes and dependencies changes. The problem is in dependencies changes. We look only at dependencies that are a continuum project too, it would be good to check repositories to find if a new version exists like maven do it. An other problem with dependencies changes is we don't really check if a new version exists but only if a new build result was created, it's a problem in case of projects with more than one build definition (for example "clean install" and "site"). If a site is generated, a new build result is created and continuum consider it as a dependency change so it rebuild all dependent projects in the next step. About GWT, I found few guys (6) that want to spend some time to do the migration and investigate on some new UI features. This roadmap is short because I don't want to wait a new time a long wait before to release a new 1.x version and I'd like to attract new users. I'd like to release 1.2 betfore the end of the year. I'll send a new mail in few weeks about 2.0 roadmap that will require more work. wdyt? Emmanuel
