> I say we entirely separate out the plugins into their > own JIRA projects and then take a look at what's really in > the core.
Not much left! :) > I can live with releasing what we have now as 1.0. > Well, I disagree for a few reasons. These are just my opinion though, of course. - 1.0 will get more publicity, and it might be the time users who were bitten by problems such as the leak come back and give it another shot. It'd be nice for it to work for them this time around :) - 1.0 will still need to bundle the optional plugins in some way (or maybe we use the NSIS installer to selectively download them? :) So any major bugs in them need to be fixed and up to release status. However I agree here - lets push to get each plugin we release with 1.0 to a stable release. They can keep going beyond that, but we can at least say "we can use x for 1.0". It may be the case that this is already there. - the memory usage improvement is huge, and speed can be further improved within the current refactoring by more efficient plugin loading. This is going to be important for anyone generating a multiproject site with lots of reports (a very common usage). - I think the people that don't care about polish are using it now anyway, so the version, as Jason said, is irrelevant. - On the contrary, if we release it as 1.0, we probably find we need to rush a 1.1 to fix the same bugs we currently have waiting for 1.0. When it comes down to it, the answer is "what's in a name?" :) But where we stand is that there's either this reasonable amount of work waiting for 1.0, or there's nothing. We either release 1.0 now (After a quick review of JIRA), or commit to getting the fixed up plugin context code into that release and have two more release candidates. One argument in favour of releasing now is that HEAD can open up for new development such as the recent POM suggestions being made. However, there is nothing stop that in the current scenario either - it just means everything targetted at 1.0 including core bugfixes goes onto the branch. Thoughts? Cheers, Brett
