On 1/12/07, Rahul Akolkar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: <snip/>
OK, I'll post the proposed text for the announcement early next week and we can send it out then (by that time the site will have been updated, artifacts sufficiently mirrored etc.)
<snap/> OK, we're all set to announce now that Continuum has updated the site (thanks Wendy). The proposed text is at the bottom of the email [1], with the blurb about quality yet unfilled. Since the 1.0.4 release vote wasn't explicit about "initial" quality, we can either: (a) Mention the quality is undecided at this point (but will be voted on down the road) (b) Mention alpha quality (which may be upgraded later) (c) Hold a separate initial quality vote before announcing (IMO, alpha/beta probably appropriate candidates ATM) Preferences? -Rahul [1] Proposed text follows: The Apache Shale team is pleased to announce the release of Shale Framework version 1.0.4. The Apache Shale Framework is a set of loosely coupled services, fundamentally based on JavaServer Faces, which may be combined as needed to meet particular application requirements. Version 1.0.4 can be downloaded from the following page: http://www.apache.org/dyn/closer.cgi/shale/ ---QUALITY BLURB HERE, TBD--- This release includes the following significant new features and changes: * The Shale framework now contains six new modules, allowing application developers greater freedom over choosing the bits they need. The new modules are shale-application, shale-dialog, shale-dialog-basic, shale-dialog-scxml, shale-validator and shale-view. See the version 1.0.4 website for documentation on all modules: http://shale.apache.org/1.0.4/ * Several outstanding JIRA issues focusing on functional problems with the implementation of the Dialog feature have been addressed along with the refactoring in 1.0.4. * shale-clay has seen numerous improvements to the non-validating markup parser, template encoding, template namespace support, as well as JSF 1.2 basic support for Clay managed views and reduced inner dependencies for Servlet 2.3 compatibility. * It is now possible to build unit tests, using the shale-test module, that cater to JSF 1.2 APIs. Additionally, this version includes a substantial number of bugfixes and enhancements, full details can be found in the release notes: http://shale.apache.org/docs/release-notes-1.0.4.html Most of the framework APIs are reasonably stable, please see the following web page for more details: http://shale.apache.org/1.0.4/api-stability.html -Rahul Akolkar on behalf of the Apache Shale community ( http://shale.apache.org )
