Dennis,

"ADB unwrapping" and JAXB codegen are not super-critical IMHO. If i
see JIRA's from users clamoring for these, then i am likely to change
my opinion. These are my 2 cents. I definitely agree about backward
compat and documentation changes.

thanks,
dims

On 5/15/07, Dennis Sosnoski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
ADB unwrapping was broken, which seems pretty critical to me. I know
Amila fixed that, though I don't know if he created a Jira on the issue.
The JAXB code generation was also broken, at least for cases with
multiple schemas in the WSDL. I don't know the status of that one. Those
are the problems I've personally encountered in some limited testing
with the 1.2 release. Aren't there also a number of problems in the
schema handling for WSDL2Java?

But at this point we can't even test Rampart with 1.2, AFAIK. If Rampart
can do a 1.2 release without changes to Axis2 1.2 then perhaps it's
reasonable to stay with the existing 1.2. In the future I don't think it
makes sense to do an Axis2 release at all without at least working test
builds of Rampart for that release. To say that it's a separate mar is
just begging the issue - Rampart provides core functionality for
enterprise users of Axis2, and the code is so intimately tied to the
Axis2 and AXIOM code that you need a specific build of Rampart to match
an Axis2 release. That's why I now think it was a mistake to split it
out of the Axis2 codebase - by doing so we've created the need for a lot
more coordination without any gains in flexibility that I can see.

My feeling is that for Axis2 to be usable in enterprise environments the
releases need to be maintained with critical fixes. I've been doing this
for the axis2-jibx module myself, since that's easily handled in
isolation. I also don't think we should break backward compatibility
unless it's absolutely necessary, and if compatibility is broken we
should document it as part of the release notes.

  - Dennis

Davanum Srinivas wrote:
> Dennis,
>
> Do you have a list of critical bugs from 1.2? that needs to be fixed?
> All bugs i have seen so far have some sort of work around.
>
> Rampart is not part of Axis2 codebase. There is nothing stopping
> rampart folks from shipping a mar for Axis2 1.2.
>
> thanks,
> dims
>
> On 5/15/07, Dennis Sosnoski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> I think skipping 1.2.1 is a bad idea. So far each major Axis2 release
>> has gone out with critical bugs found shortly after release. A 1.2.1
>> release will at least fix these critical bugs for 1.2 (hopefully without
>> creating a bunch of new ones). Just moving to 1.3 from trunk, on the
>> other hand, is likely to create at least as many new critical bugs as it
>> fixes.
>>
>> We really need better quality control for Axis2 to achieve the level of
>> use it deserves. When 1.3 does come out I'd hope it would be subject to
>> more rigorous testing than what has gone before. I'd suggest that for
>> this one we do a more realistic release progression, starting with a
>> branch and a beta release from that branch, then moving on to a release
>> candidate once we really think the code is solid - and holding at that
>> release candidate for at least a couple of weeks of final testing before
>> the official release.
>>
>> The Rampart process should follow the same path and same schedule. I'm
>> starting to wonder if it even made sense to split Rampart out of the
>> Axis2 codebase, since I don't think there's much point in doing an Axis2
>> release without a corresponding Rampart release. The current situation
>> of having an Axis2 1.2 release with no corresponding Rampart release
>> means that most enterprise users are stuck back at Axis2 1.1.1 (the
>> working version of 1.1, and the last release for which WS-Security is
>> available).
>>
>>   - Dennis
>>
>> Davanum Srinivas wrote:
>> > Glen,
>> > Makes sense to me. Let's skip 1.2.1 and jump straight to the next
>> > release from trunk. Since we need new releases of Axiom, XmlSchema,
>> > the so called "critical" bugs don't seem so critical anymore :) We
>> > should have a 1.3 real-soon-now instead of waiting too long.
>> >
>> > Folks,
>> > WDYT?
>> >
>> > thanks,
>> > dims
>> >
>> > On 5/15/07, Glen Daniels <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> >>
>> >> At this point I feel I have to ask why are we doing 1.2.1 from the
>> >> branch and *not* just moving ahead on the trunk?  It seems like about
>> >> the same amount of effort now... if 1.2.1 were just fixing a few
>> >> critical problems with 1.2 and then releasing ASAP, that would be
>> fine,
>> >> but if it involves changing Axiom and Schema dependencies as well,
>> why
>> >> not just take the time to get the fixes into trunk and do the release
>> >> from there (with another branch for 1.2.5 or whatever we end up
>> >> calling it).
>> >>
>> >> I'm OK with it either way but the more work that happens over on the
>> >> branch, the more likely it is that something will get dropped when we
>> >> move back to trunk....
>> >>
>> >> Thoughts?
>> >>
>> >> --Glen
>> >>
>> >> Deepal Jayasinghe wrote:
>> >> > Hi Dennis,
>> >> >
>> >> > Now the release process is bit complex and we need to release
>> >> dependent
>> >> > projects before Axis2 release (specially Axiom and XML Schema ) so
>> >> I can
>> >> > not exactly tell the release date of Axis2 1.2.1. Any way let's
>> try to
>> >> > do is as soon as we can.
>> >> >
>> >> > Thanks
>> >> > Deepal
>> >> >
>> >> > Dennis Sosnoski wrote:
>> >> >> I'd like to get this one fixed for 1.2.1, too:
>> >> >> https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/AXIS2-2669
>> >> >>
>> >> >> Can anyone give a target date for the 1.2.1 release? I'm
>> planning to
>> >> >> have this fixed within two days, but want to make sure I don't
>> miss
>> >> >> the release window.
>> >> >>
>> >> >>  - Dennis
>> >> >>
>> >> >
>> >> >
>> >> >
>> >> >
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