Hi (again) guys, As you might have noticed, I took some time last week to go on a JIRA fixing campaign on Apache Directory Studio.
With the recent developments, I think we are nearing a possible release of a first milestone for version 2.0. Of course, it still needs some work but various reasons makes me think we should probably consider releasing the first milestone really soon: 1°/ It's been more than 20 months since the last release (April 5th, 2010). That's really a shame, but it's the reality… :( Such a long time without a release gives a very bad impression on users. Almost like if Studio was an abandoned project... 2°/ Milestone releases worked well on the API and ApacheDS. We've had some great results from milestone releases on these projects. Even if they are not stable and production-ready yet, they have helped us get back in touch with our users and forced us to focus on specific key-features for each iteration. 3°/ A hell lot of things have changed in Studio, with lots of improvements and bug fixes. I can't name everything but it includes things like: - the inclusion of the Apache Directory LDAP API as network provider (as a replacement for JNDI - which is still selectable) - the use of Shared's SchemaManager in the Schema Editor - the rewrite of the ApacheDS plugins into something more open, the LDAP Servers plugin - the new ApacheDS V2 Configuration Plugin which edits via LDAP and LDIF the configuration of an ApacheDS 2.0 server - the update of Eclipse dependencies and launchers to the latest and greatest versions - many bug fixes, improvements and feature requests This mail isn't to vote about the release yet. A few things really need to be polished first. But I'd like to get your thoughts about a possible release of a first milestone for version 2.0 in the next days/weeks. Thanks, Pierre-Arnaud
