We also need to decide whether Geronimo will provide any of the following:
-Incremental Update - Provide a mechanism that allows users to apply
fixes from a "dot" release to an existing *binary* installation (e.g.
apply 2.0.1 fixes (jars) to an existing 2.0 installation)
-Migration - Provide a mechanism to migrate applications and
configurations to a later release (e.g. user upgrade from 1.0 -> 2.0)
Basically providing easy ways for users to move to later versions of code.
-Dave-
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
