Thanks for your answers guys. I have committed the final updates for a release of this version (mainly features and updatesite related) and I will try to propose a release tomorrow.
It will be a good test to see if we're still able to release the project more than 20 months after the last release (so many things have changed…). In order to release Studio, I will also need to release versions of Shared (LDAP API) and ApacheDS. I'm wondering if we should consider these releases as new milestone release for these two projects (1.0.0-M9 for Shared and 2.0.0-M4 for ApacheDS). WDYT? About the Studio release, development isn't over yet. There are still some things to tweak and update (like the documentation, a few translations missing), as well as small know issues, like an issue with the SchemaManager not reporting a few error case when checking the schema. But, overall, the application works great and I expect to address all of these issues in the next iterations. So, tomorrow, be ready for some release commits (with rollbacks I guess, as usual…) and a new vote thread to celebrate 2012. Cheers, Pierre-Arnaud On 20 déc. 2011, at 22:19, Alex Karasulu wrote: > > > On Tue, Dec 20, 2011 at 9:32 PM, Emmanuel Lecharny <[email protected]> > wrote: > On 12/20/11 7:09 PM, Pierre-Arnaud Marcelot wrote: > 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. > > It will be a milestone, you don't have to be too cautious, IMO. Just go for > it when you think it's ready. > > > Agree w/ Emm here ... > > -- > Best Regards, > -- Alex >
