Do we need to vote on this? If so, +1
Patricia
Tom Hobbs wrote:
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
