Hi Guys, IMO everyone needs to constrain their changes at this stage if there is to be any real hope of getting 1.0 out this year. In stuff I've released, once something in RC stage *nothing* changes except bug fixes. Changing user-level APIs is absolutely out, as is changing any internal guts for "cleaner guts" purposes.
I think Rick's frustration is reasonable. Dims, I find it a bit hard to accept the position that users should file test cases for functionality they've gotten used to in a beta/RC stage that they'd like to keep. The reason to go from alpha to beta is (and was, even here) to signal to users that things are somewhat stable. I suggest that we develop a precise list of what needs to be done for 1.0 and do *nothing* but that. Reject EVERY other change. Yep, that's pretty damn draconian, but that's the only way to get such a big beast like Axis completed and out the door. This is especially true for 1.0. If all committers don't agree to this then I am not at all confident this will get done in 2002. Sanjiva.
