On 23/03/2008, Mark Wielaard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi Andrew, > > snip...
> > * Change the discussion of releases to refer to 1.0 as a major > > release rather than a public release. Most of our 0.x releases > > have been pretty public! > > > Yes, good change. I would actually just call them that in the actual > text: > > <P>GNU Classpath is always in progress. The have been various public 0.x > releases, slowly working towards the major 1.0 release. The current > development source code is available via GNU's anonymous > <A href="https://savannah.gnu.org/cvs/?group=classpath";> > CVS server</A> , and periodic public releases of the GNU Classpath tree > are made available on <A > href="ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/classpath/";>ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/classpath/</A> > </P> > > I agree with this change, except I'd add 'Development of' to the front. snip... > > > > * Updated the roadmap and in the process open the discussion of a 1.0 release. > > I think we need to make a firm decision on this if GNU Classpath is to continue. > > A 1.0 release would actually be a good conclusion too, as people move towards > > OpenJDK (which seems to be the case). As you can see from the patch, I suggest > > we make 1.0 a release where the core (java.*) is at the 1.6 level. If you view > > the current comparisons with 1.5, you will see we are already further along the > > 1.6 path than might be thought, and I think we can achieve this subsection prior > > to a 1.7 JDK being made available. Other elements, like Swing, would be a bonus. > > More importantly, I suggest we aim to get several applications working well -- > > which these are I'll leave to discussion on here, but Eclipse, Tomcat and JBoss seem > > like good choices to me (given we've had efforts on all these already). Without > > making any guarantees this early, the end of the year would be a nice time to > > see this happen. > > > This might be slightly controversial. Personally I would aim for 1.5 > completeness, plus anything 1.6 we have and a stable VM interface. > Hopefully one that will be easy to use for openjdk too. I really like > the addition of the use feedback paragraph. > Yes, I changed my mind on this a couple of days ago too when I realised how far from 1.6 on java.* we actually were! 1.5 is what I actually had in mind when I wrote this, judging by the current API results, and that seems a sensible result to aim for. Most people are working to this standard rather than 1.6 anyway at present, though I guess things may have changed by year end. > Thanks, > > > Mark > > Thanks, -- Andrew :-) Document Freedom Day - March 26th http://documentfreedom.org Support Free Java! Contribute to GNU Classpath and the OpenJDK http://www.gnu.org/software/classpath http://openjdk.java.net PGP Key: 94EFD9D8 (http://subkeys.pgp.net) Fingerprint: F8EF F1EA 401E 2E60 15FA 7927 142C 2591 94EF D9D8
