Hi all, As we promised in our last board report, we are working towards a release of ACE (I propose to call that 1.0). To start working towards that, I would like to start by asking everybody if there are blocking issues that, according to them, have to be fixed before we can cut a release? If so, this is the time to discuss them!
Also, there are a couple of things we still need to address. I tried to make a list, and as soon as we agree on them I will convert that to issues, link them to a version in Jira so we have a goal to work towards. My list: * Make sure all bundles are versioned as 1.0 * Make sure all exported packages are versioned as 1.0 * Complete all relevant bundle headers / metadata * Ensure that src-build.xml and bin-build.xml work and that we can do a "source only" release. * Finish release guide (ACE-106) * Review and improve NOTICE and LICENSE (ACE-211) * Release autoconf, deploymentadmin in Apache Felix and use these new releases instead of the SNAPSHOTs we use now. * Update our website: everything under user, some dev pages and (see above) release guide An issue to discuss: We currently have a dependency on BouncyCastle: directly because we have one unit test that uses it, and indirectly, because jclouds uses it. Jan Willem looked into this and what it would mean to release this a while ago, but I believe our question to legal regarding this is still open. We have two options: a) remove BouncyCastle from the release, meaning we can't release one test and our jclouds support, or b) make sure we get a good answer from legal and a way forward so we can release this. Any thoughts? Greetings, Marcel
