I made a few minor commits last night to fix the issues that came up during the 1.0.0 release. I also took a look at the notice file and I'd like refine the wording. Currently the contents with "NOTICE accounting for Apache Shiro's use" lines make it sound more like a licensing issue but the two notices we have are about copyrights, not licenses. The NOTICE is a user-facing file but as is, it reads to me more of a document to Incubator PMC for IP clearance. Ant had suggested perhaps removing the notice regarding SoftHashMap which I believe we could do if we only used the concept since ideas cannot be copyrighted. I believe the code is in public domain so the matter is only regarding to copyrights in case we copied some of the code directly but I didn't try doing a diff to verify. Regardless, I think it's fair to acknowledge Dr. Heinz Kabutz as the originator of the SoftHashMap concept even if we aren't legally bound to put in NOTICE file. I'd remove the "== NOTICE accounting..." header and the "Per Heinz Kabutz..." line.
The Spring source notice is equally straight-forwarded. Spring is under the same Apache license and there are multiple copyright holders of the Spring codebase so we just need to acknowledge that Spring has copyrights to some part of the codebase if we copied the code for StringUtils etc. directly which we probably did. I'd remove the "== NOTICE from" header and rephrase the wording to mention StringUtils and the reasoning. I'll edit the file as suggested unless I hear objections. Regarding the roadmap, after this we only have actual code issues left for 1.1.0 release. There were a few issues in 1.0.0 that were more than minor but each with workarounds so at this point it doesn't seem like we'd necessarily need 1.0.1 release before 1.1.0. Now, if we release 1.1.0 while still in incubator, we are in some ways "wasting" a perfectly good release. It's my understanding we could more or less graduate at will now so unless anything urgent comes up, I'd suggest we get ready for 1.1.0 release, hold a graduation vote and then release 1.1.0 as TLP. Does anybody see any issues with that plan and/or any pressing issues we must complete before attempting to graduate? Kalle
