Updated the three next important steps and moved the originals in the body of the report. Added Jukka as the "signed by mentor"
>>> On Mon, Dec 6, 2010 at 9:31 AM, Tom Hobbs <tvho...@googlemail.com> wrote: >>> > Here's the status report for December. >>> > >>> > Comments? >>> > >>> > River >>> > >>> > Apache River is a distributed computing architecture, based on the JSK >>> > Starter Kit Source code donated by Sun Microsystems, for the Jini >>> > Specification. While generally referred to as a Service Architecture, >>> > it might be more easily explained to those familiar with Dependency >>> > Injection as a Protocol Independent, Distributed Dependency Injection >>> > Architecture, suited to both hardware and software. Instead of >>> > depending on Protocols directly for communication, everything is >>> > abstracted behind a Java interface, allowing protocols and >>> > implementations to be swapped freely, programming languages other than >>> > Java can also participate. >>> > >>> > The activity on the River project continues to grow and is seeing >>> > renewed interest from people who had previously fallen silent. The >>> > current development team feels that we are ready to start the >>> > Graduation process to a TLP. >>> > >>> > The next release 2.2.0 is scheduled for January, this is likely to be >>> > a bug-fix release and will hopefully be our last release before >>> > graduation. >>> > >>> > New functionality and enhancements has currently been suspended in >>> > favour of bug-fixes and the work towards graduation. The following >>> > rough road map has been provisionally agreed; >>> > >>> > * Graduation as top level project river.apache.org >>> > * Rename com.sun namespace to org.apache.river >>> > * Modular build & JDK policy >>> > >>> > After this has been completed then the previous work on new >>> > functionality and enhancements will be picked up again. These will >>> > include; >>> > * Dynamic Grants at Runtime, based on CodeSource, Code Signer >>> > Certificate chains , ProtectionDomain or ClassLoader. >>> > * Dynamic Revoke of Grant's at Runtime >>> > * Securing proxy downloads and unmarshalling >>> > >>> > Additionally work is continuing on the build and test environments. The >>> > project has recently been able to run all the categories of the QA tests >>> > which is a significant accomplishment, but it does make for a rather long >>> > test sequence. They have highlighted several bugs which have been fixed. >>> > More of the JTREG tests are also passing after fixes to the environment >>> > and the tests themselves. >>> > >>> > The website has been moved to the new Apache CMS environment and has >>> > seen further increases in the level of documentation available, >>> > particular articles which are useful to people starting to use and >>> > develop River. >>> > >>> > 3 most important issues: >>> > * List future River PMC members and select the initial PMC chair >>> > * Prepare the TLP graduation resolution >>> > * Vote on graduation >>> > >>> > Signed off by mentor: >>> > >>> > Jukka Zitting >> >> >
