Wow Matt, great compilation. I almost forgot all we did this year.
Just to add to the list I would say that we also did a very much needed Web site
"Face Lift".
Congratulations and Happy *ANY to everyone !!!
(those who ever worked with AS/400 know what I mean with *ANY ;-) )
Cheers!
Hernan
Matt Hogstrom wrote:
I'm cleaning up my hard drive and getting the end of the year stuff done
before I take some vacation time and it occurred to me how much we've
accomplished this year. Not only in Geronimo proper but also in related
projects like OpenEJB. I'm sure I'll miss some items so when I do
please chime in so they don't get forgotten.
Here are the highlights off the top of my head:
Released 5 Versions of Geronimo in a single year:
1.0 - January
1.1 - June
1.1.1 - September
For those that count poultry still in the shell:
1.2-beta - December
2.0-M1 - December
That is a really significant accomplishment and I'm really honored to
work with y'all to make this happen. This is not an insignificant
amount of work by any stretch of the imagination. We're even now in the
realm of delivering a Java EE 5.0 release within the SAME year as the
other projects and commercial vendors (and we'll beat some of them
too). This is awesome news.
We've improved our documentation, we've seen the community grow with
interested outside folks like LifeRay, Terracotta and slews of new users
and some interested developers. The committer list has grown by several
people and the PMC has some new members as well. Overall our community
is stronger at the end of 2006 than it was at the beginning which is an
excellent thing.
OpenEJB and ActiveMQ joined Apache and are in Incubator and moving
towards their own destinies as TLPs at Apache as well. XBean has grown
in its use in other projects and Geronimo has a much better integration
with Eclipse than we did previously (its nice to see the GLogo in the
server list). DayTrader has included support for JPA and was used as
the performance basis in our first Performance Report.
We've also moved from Maven 1 to Maven 2 for our build environment, a
feat that still boggles my mind. With the new plugins used to build and
take care of PITA issues like legal stuff every release gets easier.
Testing is also improving with some neat tests for the console to detect
breakage earlier.
We're almost there of JDK independence with the inclusion of Yoko.
Another very significant move for Geronimo and OpenEJB.
We've innovated with the plugins and including dojo in a way that makes
application development easier.
Looking back over the last year we've come a long way. Everyone of you
should be proud to be a part of this team in that together we are
creating software that has significance in the world and you all made it
happen.
For now I offer you a Merry Christmas, Happy Quanza, Happy Hanukkah,
Feliz Navidad, Happy Holidays, Winter Solstice or whatever your favorite
season greeting is. One of our greatest strengths is our diversity and
ability to appreciate each others differences as the glue that brings us
together and makes us a strong whole. We're wrapping up the old and
pressing on to the new. Let the adventure continue :)
Cheers
Matt Hogstrom
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