Hi, Thanks for the feedback! It sounds like we should be good to go for the 1.0 release in about a month from now.
The release doesn't need to be perfect as we can always do 1.1 and other releases after that, so I wouldn't put any single issue as a blocker. On the other hand this will probably be the first Tika release that many new users will encounter, so we should strive to make it as good as we can. It sounds like we have consensus to get rid of the deprecated stuff before 1.0. I don't think a separate 0.9.9 or 0.10 release for that is really needed, but it would be good to create a 0.x branch right before the backwards-incompatible changes so people who have trouble with the upgrade still have something more recent than 0.9 to work with. We'll take lead with Chris about the press release and will circulate the draft so everyone can chime in with suggestions for improvements. It would be great to have a few supporting quotes from organizations that are already using Tika. Any takers? I can probably get Adobe on board. BR, Jukka Zitting
