We have been having a series of discussions recently about project structure, APIs, extensions, policies for plugins, distributions and so on. I think this is a sign that we have started to move beyond the "code the core like crazy" phase to a "how do people add stuff" phase.
However, although we have made a lot of progress, I don't think we're quite ready for them to do that yet. As can be seen from our discussions, there are a couple of things that need to settle down from both technical and social perspectives. We have two sessions at JavaOne: a panel on open source SOA and a BOF specifically on Tuscany. I think these present a good opportunity to meet with other like-minded people, show them what we have and encourage them to come and participate. I think it would be good by then to actually have a binary release available for anyone to download and use. That will lower the barrier to entry and hopefully encourage people to contribute extensions, bindings, and the like. I also think that working on a release would focus our discussions both technical and social. JavaOne is early this year (May 15 IIRC) which is not far away. I'd like to suggest we sort out the APIs we were discussing and get the project structure set up. What do you think - is this the right time? Should we work toward such a release? What else should be in it? -- Jeremy
