Once I'm finished with this infernal installer, I'm working on web services -- period -- unless someone stops me.
BTW, do I have any f'ing karma yet? Sorry, bad day. regards, erik On Thursday 26 January 2006 17:18, Dain Sundstrom wrote: > Ever since we shipped 1.0, I have been getting a surprising number of > private emails from old fiends, old Geronimo contributers, companies, > and just random people telling me that the are excited about Geronimo > and want to join in. They all inevitably ask me for advise on what > to work on, and I really have no idea other than "look at JIRA". So > I'd like to solicit the community to help me create a roadmap, tasks, > things to do list, what ever we call it. > > Before we get into building this, I'd like to focus the discussion, > so we don't end up in mailing-list fantasy land :) Lets agree to not > talk about the technology used to track the tasks; once we have the > content we can discuss using JIRA, wiki, html or creating a Gopher > site. Secondly, lets focus on things that are reasonable to do in > the next 9 months. Finally, don't worry about someone else working > on something you want to work on. With open communication on the > mailing list, I think everyone will be able to work something they > find interesting without stepping on toes. Oh, one final thing, > please don't try to "take a task" until we have this list complete. > > Without further delay, here are some things off the top of my head: > > o Conversion to Maven 2 - Very important and a huge task > > o Ant versions of the Geronimo plugins > > o XDoclet for all configurations > > o Integration tests that cover servlets, webservices and jms > > o Little-G - Geronimo with a small foot print > > o Global non-persistent JNDI implementation > > o EJB 2.x - Once I get my refractor committed, it will be obvious > where the 2.x implementation needs work like better caching > > o JEE 5 - There is a ton of stuff under this, but it would be good to > start with a list of what is required for JEE 5 > > > > I don't want to speak for the other ares of Geronimo I don't work on > regularly, but I am sure that there are good opportunities to help in > the console, jms, javamail, ejb, clustering, esb/jbi/bpm, tooling, > performance, build, testing, samples, documentation, so if you are > more familiar with one of those areas, please post. > > I think this is a "once in a project chance" to build a big vibrant > community of developers, and let's not let it pass us by. > > Thanks in advance, > > -dain -- Regards, Erik
