This has been a great discussion and a lot of important issues have
been raised. We don't seem to have a consensus just yet, but I think
we have made good progress toward one. I've snipped out the
highlights of the discussion below:
On Sep 6, 2006, at 12:40 PM, Joe Bohn wrote:
I've heard several people talk about functions that they would like
to see included in 1.2: Yoko, Java 5, JPA integration, clustering,
GShell, pluggable JACC (may be already there), CMP for JPA,
Usability improvements (esp. web console), performance
improvements, etc... What of these capabilities do we as a
community feel are critical to be competitive?
On Sep 6, 2006, at 3:49 PM, Jason Dillon wrote:
I think that by releasing a 1.2-alpha, that we also start down the
path of changing the perception of how quickly we release. The
alpha can also serve to help us get some experience using the m2
release plugin so that when it comes time for a non-alpha/beta
release that we have confidence in the procedure... and this will
give us time to make sure that we have the right configurations and
setup to make a release with relative ease.
On Sep 7, 2006, at 6:22 AM, Dave Colasurdo wrote:
IMHO, trunk is not currently in an Alpha state [....] It seems that
trunk is currently in a pre-alpha state and I believe making an
occasional unstable/nightly build available would allow users/
developers to get familiar with the latest and greatest functions
in trunk without giving the false impression that G1.2 is currently
in Alpha state.
On Sep 7, 2006, at 11:57 AM, Hiram Chirino wrote:
Lets stop trying to feature box so much and try to time box more.
[....] If we don't release often then we can't tap our user
community to help us QA and provide feedback more often.
On Sep 7, 2006, at 3:16 PM, Aaron Mulder wrote:
I'd be happy to call it a pre-alpha or whatever.
On Sep 7, 2006, at 8:43 PM, Bruce Snyder wrote:
forward progress and a visible roadmap are what users want to see.
Right now Geronimo is headed pretty squarely down the path of
updates every six months. IMO, we need to change that and feature
packing every release is only going to keep things on that track.
On Sep 7, 2006, at 10:28 AM, David Jencks wrote:
There are a bunch of jiras/bug fixes that still need to be forward
ported to trunk, and the stuff in all_changes.log is still not
addressed to a considerable extent.
And finally a comment from an actual user :)
On Sep 6, 2006, at 8:47 AM, Brian Chan wrote:
I would love to see that as well. I'm waiting on a few fixes (ejb
compile leaking) to get on a stable Geronimo release so we can
release Liferay 4.2.0 with Geronimo on the enterprise level (thanks
to Jeff Grenender for that). Otherwise, will just have to go with a
snapshot which doesn't look as good.
I'm going to start a new thread to attempt to gain a consensus on 1.2
and a separate one for the issue David Jencks raised about dead-1.2.
-dain
