On Sat, Jan 10, 2009 at 1:00 PM, Mark Struberg <[email protected]> wrote:
> I've checked my list and found a few things we should possibly do before the 
> milestone:
>
> 1.) create a site.

+1
but not that important :-)
but I totally agree, that having a site would be more than appreciated
by lot's of folks.

 This may be done via maven in the main projets src/site or we may
also create an own site module .
> Is there any documentation standard as we e.g. have for maven-plugins?
> I've seen Gurkan wrote a few slide as introduction to WebBeans already. Maybe 
> we can use this as a starting point?
> I guess it's not legally possible to include the spec, but there should be no 
> problem linking to the JSR-299 page.
>
> 2.) code formatting, remove unused imports etc. The usual polishing 
> suspects...
+0
>
> 3.) Check the dependencies via mvn dependency:analyze.
> Which dependencies have to be passed transitively?
> Which dependencies are only used at compile time
> Which dependencies are only used for testing?
> Just to make sure we don't have a rat tail full of jars no one needs.
>
> 4.) incorporate the TCK Peter Muir wrote. I must admit I'm not sure how we 
> should do this best.

it is maven-based, right? So we can somehow automate it.

> There is also the legal aspect we should keep an eye on. I read through the 
> license for the JSR-299 download and don't know what I actually should think 
> about it :/ Though I'v only studied law in vienna so I'm not an expert in US 
> contracts.

the TCK, for webBeans is ASL-based. However all JCP-based JSR usually suck.
a) they are not open (even if the call it it java COMMUNITY process)
b) their licenses are pretty damn restrictive

>
> 5.) Create a sample with myfaces and openjpa to show webbeans usage with 
> @Transactional and stuff. For what I understand we don't need to use Marios 
> orchestra in this scenario anymore (LazyInitializationException and 
> NonUniqueObjectException handling), insn't it?

yep. I have the same understanding.

>
> LieGrue,

are you German? Or Austrian ?

Cheers,
Matthias

> strub
>
> --- Matthias Wessendorf <[email protected]> schrieb am Sa, 10.1.2009:
>
>> Von: Matthias Wessendorf <[email protected]>
>> Betreff: Re: Milestone release planing
>> An: [email protected]
>> Datum: Samstag, 10. Januar 2009, 17:30
>> On Fri, Jan 9, 2009 at 2:48 PM, Kevan Miller
>> <[email protected]> wrote:
>> >
>> > On Jan 9, 2009, at 10:58 AM, Mark Struberg wrote:
>> >
>> >> Hi Gurkan!
>> >>
>> >> You talked about doing a milestone release in the
>> next days.
>> >>
>> >> Just like to make sure that we've finally met
>> all prerequisites before you
>> >> start the vote.
>> >
>> >
>> > Thanks for the discussion Mark...
>> >
>> > The normal process would be:
>> >
>> > * release discussion - describing proposed release
>> plans (e.g. approximate
>> > timing, remaining functional items, etc). This gives
>> community members a
>> > chance to comment, register additional function/bug
>> fixes that they'd like
>> > to see included, etc.
>> >
>> > * release preparation - once consensus is reached,
>> prepare for the release.
>> > Finalize desired functionality, prepare documentation,
>> etc. Good time to ask
>> > community members to review (easier to fix now, rather
>> than spinning a new
>> > release candidate, starting a new vote, etc...)
>> >
>> > * release vote - prepare a release for review and call
>> a vote.
>> >
>> > In incubator, we'll then go through an incubator
>> vote. We should expect that
>> > this incubator vote will identify problems. But
>> that's all goodness... Once
>> > the incubator vote passes, then we have our first
>> release.
>>
>> +1
>> when Trinidad was still in the incubator mode, the folks on
>> the
>> [email protected] list
>> really helped to polish some of the (maven) artifacts. The
>> Trinidad
>> project is still
>> gaining from that. All good stuff there. But don't
>> expect the first
>> vote to pass ;-)
>>
>
>
>
>



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