After releasing Cocoon 2.1.6 it's time to plan our future. A few month ago we updated our roadmap in SVN. According to this we agreed that 2.2 is a consolidated version of 2.1.
So what are the changes and what's their current status? -------------------------------------------------------- (based on xdocs/plan/roadmap.xml)
- stable Cocoon Forms the status is summarizes by Sylvain[1]
- move service manager into our code repository done my Carsten
- Virtual Sitemap Components Vadim started with the implementation
- inheritable views don't know the status (I think Carsten is/was working on it)
- move to Subversion done
- migrate to official rhino_1.6 done
- deprecate XSP to be done (needs an alternative) Daniel, are you working on a JXTG 2.0?
- Cleaning up the caching/store mess don't know, does it work now as it should?
- separate blocks from Core that's my job: I'm working on a block-builder and a block-deployer that will make this separation possible and will give us the chance of a smooth transition from our current monolytic system to a decentral blocks orientated system:
* every block get's a descriptor containing all meta information like
author, license, status, block references and library references
--> should as close as possible to the needs of RealBlocks
* enhance jars.xml to become a repository (only needs an id attribute
for all entries so they can be references and looked up)
* setup the new block centric build system parallel to the existing one
* when everything works fine and a vote is passed,
the old build system will be removed
* move blocks into [svn]/cocoon/blocks --> blocks are independant units
with their own lifecycle- reduce Cocoon core to a minimum to be done
- versioning guide done for Ccooon core; needs enhancements because of the more independant blocks and their own lifecycles
- rethink our distribution policy with the new block building system we can distribute Cocoon as binary again; we have to decide which blocks are part of an official Cocoon distribution
- new documentation system consider the efforts on users list and restructure the docs; separation of blocks also requires splitting up the docs
Could people knowing more about those points give some feedback? Anything else open for 2.2?
So let's talk about a schedule ... ---------------------------------- Many things are already done. Open issues that may take longer are:
- VirtualSitemapCompoents - stabelize cForms - new block building and deploying mechanism (+ transition see above) - docs - clean up
The first three tasks have to be done before we can release a contract-stable Cocoon 2.2 beta1. I plan to have implemented deployer and builder by the end of January. Then we could release a beta1 in February ;-) Is this a realistic timeframe for others, especially those who work on cForms (Sylvain, Tim) and virtualComponents (Vadim)?
Cocoon 2.3 ---------- To make it short: I want Cocoon 2.3 be based on whiteboard/kernel. AFAIK the implementation of kernel is stable and "only" needs to be merged with ECM.
Are there any reasons not to make Pier's kernel the official base of Cocoon 2.3? If not, Pier should have the "permission" to move its kernel into an offical 2.3 directory in our SVN whenever he thinks it's time for it. (... I prepare a vote after the discussion)
Cocoon 2.1
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As being said, we expect further patch rleases (2.1.7 and 2.1.8), especially after cForms has become stable.
release date of 2.1.7 (with or without a stable cForms block): February 2005?
Thanks for reading!
-- Reinhard
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