On Thu, Apr 18, 2013 at 4:17 PM, Marcel Offermans <marcel.offerm...@luminis.nl> wrote: > 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 >
Great! I will start by taking a crack at ACE-211 and browsing the open issues for potential show stoppers. > 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? > If feel the jclouds nodelauncher stuff is not really at the core of what ACE is about (yet). For that reason I propose to simply keep it out of the release at this point. Regards, Bram > Greetings, Marcel >
