JB, I think we should definitely create one-stop-shopping assemblies that allow users to download and run the software in seconds.
So yeah, good idea! Geert. > Hi again, > > FYI, I propose to add an assembly in 0.8.0 release. The assembly should > provide the following artifacts: > - ACE sources archive (zip/tar.gz) > - ACE agent runtime (zip/tar.gz) > - ACE consoles (zip/tar.gz) > > The purpose to give the user the possibility to quickly start with ACE. > > WDYT ? > > Regards > JB > > On 02/23/2011 09:08 AM, Jean-Baptiste Onofré wrote: >> Hi all, >> >> Geert and I are working on fully support of Maven 3 in ACE (properties, >> cleanups, etc). >> >> I hope to complete it end of this morning. >> In the mean time, I deployed Felix Metatype, Dependency Manager and >> Deployment Admin into the ACE m2 repo: >> http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/incubator/ace/repo/org/apache/felix/ >> >> and defined this repo in the ACE pom. >> >> It allows users to be able to build ACE directly without building >> previous dependencies. >> >> I think that we are not so far from a release now. >> >> I propose: >> 1/ to release ACE 0.8.0 asap (I can do it tomorrow). It's a >> ReleaseCandidate version. The purpose is to check the release process >> (identify if there are some particular points) and document this release >> process. >> 2/ The 0.8.0 will allow us to prepare demo/tests and identify what's the >> pending points. My purpose is to be able to prepare a ACE 1.0 release >> for end of march, and allow Marcel and Karl to announce ACE 1.0 at >> OSGiCon/EclipseCon during the ACE talk. >> >> WDYT ? >> >> Regards >> JB > > >
