One of the things that we usually do in the lead-up to a release, especially one that is so long between, is to upgrade some important supporting products.
Now that Gump is running Forrest again, it is showing that we can upgrade these with some confidence. [1] http://forrest.apache.org/gump.html Some candidates are Ant, Xerces, Xalan, xml-apis, Excalibur, ant-contrib, various Apache Commons stuff. See the list of supporting products being used by our Gump at [2] http://vmgump.apache.org/gump/public/forrest/forrest-test-basic/details.html The ones with "Annotation = Work Entity" are specific versions of some products. Of course Gump is using a packaged version of Cocoon-2.1.11 release, because Gump is not yet building the head of Cocoon-2.1 branch. See our Gump descriptor at [1] for more info. The rest in the list at [2] are the head of each product's development. So compare with what we have in our lib directories in SVN to see what might be upgraded. We are still using a very old version of Ehcache (v1.2.3) and Gump is not yet attempting to use the recent development version. So local testing would be needed to determine if that can be upgraded. If someone feels like doing those tasks, then please do. -David
