> >> I would like to propose we remove all 'tamino-only' tests 
> since this 
> >> doesn't really give a good impression of community development.
> >> [no hard feelings on the softwareAG folks, nono, just making sure 
> >> that this project doesn't look "owned" by SoftwareAG from the 
> >> outside, reducing the ability to acquire new contributors]
> >
> > Agreed and Peter from Software AG has shown before he 
> agrees to this 
> > as well.
> 
> Cool. Peter, Juergen, Martin, what do you think?

Of course. The testsuite needs a little bit of hands-on in order to get
freed from some Tamino-specific stuff. Unfortunately, we hadn't has a chance
do do it yet. Volunteers, go ahead!

> >> There is something that bugs me: Slide creates a session 
> in order to 
> >> work around WebFolders bugs in authentication. (grep for 
> >> getSession())
> >> I would love to have a property to disable this behavior 
> as I think 
> >> it's *very bad* that Slide is non REST-full as a whole 
> just to work 
> >> around a silly bug in IE.
> >> [note Slide is currently creating a new session everytime 
> the client 
> >> doesn't have one set: this could be a potential 
> performance killer in 
> >> environments where cookies are disabled and sessions are 
> >> transparently cluster replicated, since each request 
> generates a new 
> >> session!]
> >
> > I understand this is a bad thing, but am not deep enough into the 
> > WebDAV layer...
> 
> Anybody else wants to comment this before I provide a patch?

Hm ... I'd love to see your patch. Does somebody know, whether the bug is in
IE6 too?

Regards,
Peter

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Stefano Mazzocchi [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Sent: Sunday, November 23, 2003 18:32
> To: Slide Developers Mailing List
> Subject: Re: Summary and Proposals: 2.0 Release Topics
> 
> 
> 
> On 23 Nov 2003, at 17:05, Oliver Zeigermann wrote:
> 
> > Stefano Mazzocchi wrote:
> 
> >> I would like to propose we remove all 'tamino-only' tests 
> since this 
> >> doesn't really give a good impression of community development.
> >> [no hard feelings on the softwareAG folks, nono, just making sure 
> >> that this project doesn't look "owned" by SoftwareAG from the 
> >> outside, reducing the ability to acquire new contributors]
> >
> > Agreed and Peter from Software AG has shown before he 
> agrees to this 
> > as well.
> 
> Cool. Peter, Juergen, Martin, what do you think?
> 
> >> +1, even if we don't have any dependency on 1.3 (that I 
> know of), I 
> >> think awareness of modern JVM is a generally good trend to exhibit.
> >
> > My code has some dependencies on 1.3, yes, but I could 
> remove them...
> 
> nah, doesn't matter, I think nobody uses 1.2 anymore.
> 
> >> Would rephrase in "consisting of wars to be deployed in any J2EE 
> >> container".
> >
> > Hmmmm. As far as I remember, there really are some deployment 
> > descriptors special to Weblogic and others.
> 
> ??? the deployment descriptors were designed to exactly avoid this 
> (hell, I was one of those designers). Note that we distribute cocoon 
> with jetty, but you can package it as a war file and install in any 
> j2ee container just as is.
> 
> > I think I remember I had to change web.xml to have it run 
> in Weglogic, 
> > need to check this...
> 
> weblogic had problems when it didn't extract the war files 
> and servlets 
> were trying to write in the file system space of the servlet context.
> 
> >>> Another binary release will be Slide bundeled with latest 
> Tomcat jar 
> >>> from the 4.x release for download and go.
> >> What will be included in the tomcat version?
> >
> > The wrappers stuff...
> >
> >> Also, I would release the client library separately.
> >
> > As a binary, this could work, yes. But in source, hard to 
> do. Did some 
> > reading and found out a project is not allowed to have more 
> than one 
> > CVS module...
> 
> ?? cocoon has three.
> 
> > So, you can checkout sources together only.
> 
> ??
> 
> cvs checkout jakarta-slide/client
> 
> would download only the client
> 
> > Another possibility is to create a new subproject for the 
> client, but 
> > I guess this would be exaggerated, wouldn't it?
> 
> for now, yes, I would simply suggest we move all the client stuff on
> 
>   jakarta-slide/client
> 
> and we distribute separately that part.
> 
> >>> - Slide 2.0beta release: 3rd-4th week of Janury 2004
> >>> - Slide 2.0final release: 3rd-4th week of February 2004
> >> I don't know how you can plan a final release, but hey 
> that's up to 
> >> you as you are the release manager ;-)
> >
> > Hmmm. Why not, we defined some showstoppers that must be 
> met. If they 
> > are not and/or no vote from the committers, no final 
> release. But, if 
> > things turn out well, we might not be able to fix all bugs, 
> but list 
> > them as known (if - as I said - they are minor) and still make a 
> > release. The remaining bugs will then be scheduled for the bugfix 
> > release. Does this make sense?
> 
> Sure does. I think it's just hard to forecast the time of 
> this, but the 
> signal it gives to the community is good (even if might not 
> be met) so 
> I welcome this.
> 
> >> Have you considered using Maven for the build system? 
> helps a lot in 
> >> those realms.
> >
> > Have no experience with Maven. Please explain.
> 
> Maven is a modular project build system that works on top of 
> Ant. It's 
> ant++ for open source projects, in short. Haven't used it 
> myself, but I 
> heard it's nice and easy. take a look at http://maven.apache.org/
> 
> >> There is something that bugs me: Slide creates a session 
> in order to 
> >> work around WebFolders bugs in authentication. (grep for 
> >> getSession())
> >> I would love to have a property to disable this behavior 
> as I think 
> >> it's *very bad* that Slide is non REST-full as a whole 
> just to work 
> >> around a silly bug in IE.
> >> [note Slide is currently creating a new session everytime 
> the client 
> >> doesn't have one set: this could be a potential 
> performance killer in 
> >> environments where cookies are disabled and sessions are 
> >> transparently cluster replicated, since each request 
> generates a new 
> >> session!]
> >
> > I understand this is a bad thing, but am not deep enough into the 
> > WebDAV layer...
> 
> Anybody else wants to comment this before I provide a patch?
> 
> --
> Stefano.
> 

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