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Richard A. Sitze
IBM WebSphere WebServices Development
Sam Ruby <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
09/24/2002 04:01 PM
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Subject: [VOTE] Axis 1.0 release plan
BACKGROUND:
Many users have requested a v1.0 so that they can work from a relatively
stable base. Some users have even remained on Apache SOAP until v1.0 of
Axis is available. Now Axis has surpassed Apache SOAP in function,
performance, and interoperability and, in particular, has passed Sun's
JAX-RPC and SAAJ compliance tests, we are planning to ship v1.0
essentially as it currently stands.
However, this is far from the end of the road for Axis. There is more
documentation to be written; the SOAP v1.2 spec. needs to be tracked to
completion and implemented fully; major functional enhancements and
architectural improvements are being considered. We particularly
encourage you to submit improvements to the documentation, however large
or small and in any format, to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
PLAN:
We have achieved nearly a steady state whereby the number of fixes
targeting a 1.0 release seems to remain constant at 12 +/- 6. At the
bottom of this note is the current list. The oldest bug was reported
against a nightly build in June, the newest was opened yesterday. In
order for us to ship, we need to look at this differently, and not aim
for perfection. Once we get over the hurdle of shipping this release,
maintenance and followon releases should come more quickly. The main
thing to focus on is to get control over the rate at which new bugs are
injected.
This does not imply a moratorium on the opening of new bugs that can be
considered as candidate for release. Instead, the focus needs to shift
from fixing problems that we have lived with for months to fixing and
eliminating regressions that can be, and are being, introduced late in
the cycle.
Therefore, the following release plan is proposed for Axis 1.0:
Code Freeze / Tag Date - Wed, 25 Sept, 2002, early a.m.
Target for release - first week in October
Release Manager - Sam Ruby
Release Announcement -
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Once release freeze is achieved, inclusion of fixes into the release
requires consensus of active axis committers. Deferring of a fix
requires simple majority.
Fixes are to continue to be made on the "HEAD" of the release. Once
there is consensus that a particular fix is to be included in the
release, I'll merge it into the branch. In order to make this as smooth
and as painless a process as possible for the release manager, I'll ask
that committers show restraint in committing unrelated fixes to the HEAD
during this time in areas of the code that might interfere with the
merge process.
RELEASE CRITERIA:
* all Axis unit and functional tests pass.
* SAAJ and JAXRPC TCKs pass.
* All fixes targeted to 1.0 are either fixed or reassigned.
* Confirmation that the released version works on all servlet containers
for which there is a volunteer, including at a minimum Tomcat, JRun, and
WebSphere.
CURRENT BUG LIST:
ID Sev Pri Owner State Summary
10585 Blo Hig axis-dev REOP No serializer error is generated
12636 Blo Oth axis-dev REOP Axis rc1 support for multiple output
12886 Blo Hig gdaniels NEW Axis serializes when it shouldn't
12923 Blo Hig axis-dev NEW Message Services don't support muliple
12753 Cri Oth axis-dev REOP problem while deserializing output
12833 Cri Hig tomj NEW Axis clients fail to extract the value
12367 Maj Oth axis-dev NEW re: java2wsdl fails when parameter
12685 Maj Oth axis-dev NEW RC1 - Setting "PROP_DOMULTIREFS" looses
12758 Maj Oth axis-dev NEW Deserialization of complex classes
10365 Nor Hig tomj NEW If input/output names don't match,
10944 Nor Oth gdaniels NEW Soap envelope cleared after onFault() in
11595 Nor Oth gdaniels NEW AxisServlet ignores wsdd: "service"
12803 Nor Oth axis-dev NEW (de)serialization of an object which
12867 Nor Oth scheu NEW array of bean_b inside bean_a
- Sam Ruby
