It's high time we spun this release.  There are various patches still to
apply I know,  although I haven't done the ground work recently to collate
all the info.  Is there anyone out there who might be prepared to be release
manager for this?  I'd be happy to provide guidance.

Kelvin.

On 20/11/2007, kelvin goodson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> What should we be concentrating our efforts on in SDO Java.  I posted
> a while back to suggest we think about the content of a next release.
> We've had a few fixes go in recently,  but I'd like to see more
> consideration of release content before we crank the handle.  It would
> be great to see a balance of new features and bug fixes.
>
>
> For my part I want to get back to ...
> TUSCANY-1527    Allow for custom data binding of DataObjects in a Swing UI
> TUSCANY-1493    Snapshot mapping framework to convert DataObjects to and
> from Java objects
> as soon as I can.  And I believe that at least 1527 can move beyond
> proof of concept in my sandbox,  and become part of the trunk.
>
> I've been taking a pass through the SDO java JIRA backlog,  and seeing
> from my perspective what's simple / tricky / big / high priority etc,
> etc.  Of course simplicity is in the eye of the beholder,  for
> example, I don't view the OSGi topic as simple as I don't have
> experience there,  but someone out there may find it so; if so please
> speak up. The same goes for priority, etc. As you might imagine, in my
> estimation there are no simple high priority JIRAs left,  but there
> are a few simple medium priority ones, or simple low priority ones
> that would be good to just get out of the way.
>
> These are ....
>
> Simple Starters
> ===========
> TUSCANY-1360    New SDOUtil: Getting the enumeration facet
> TUSCANY-1178    DynamicTypesFromSchemaTestCase expecting *Object types to
> be created
> TUSCANY-1263    XMLEqualityChecker too strict
> TUSCANY-1359    New SDOUtil: Upper and lower bound on properties where
> 'isMany' is true
> TUSCANY-1384    SequenceAddOpenTest.setUp() needs to check if type exists
> before creating it
> TUSCANY-1545    Change default XML encoding to "UTF-8".
> TUSCANY-1659    SDO DateConversion test cases fail under linux
>
>
> Particular Skills JIRAs
> =================
> For anyone with JavaJet experience there's
>
> TUSCANY-1483    Static SDO generator: problem with elements named
> internal*
> which would be simple
>
> For someone with maven build experience there
> TUSCANY-257     recently added file Interface2JavaGenerator.java is not
> compatible with JDK 1.4
>
> For someone with Grobu-Utils and maven skills there's ...
> TUSCANY-1182    Add multi-threaded test case for data object creation
>
> Someone with Axis2 skills
> TUSCANY-1038    SDO databinding for Axis2
>    (This may be better done within the Axis2 project)
>
> OSGi Skills
> TUSCANY-1293    SDO does not work with OSGi
>
>
> Biting off something a bit Bigger
> ========================
> For somebody wanting something a bit bigger to take on there's
>
> TUSCANY-1192    Preserve demand created global properties
> TUSCANY-1361    New Util: Validation
> TUSCANY-1021    CopyHelper and EqualityHelper should handle ChangeSummary
> TUSCANY-1817    Improve SDO test infrastructure to re-use/re-execute most
> dynamic tests as static tests
>
>
> This isn't a full list, and I may post more soon.  Please feel free to
> disagree with my assessment and speak up with your own priorities.
> Better still step forward to help fix something.  I'd be only too
> pleased to help you understand what's required.
>
> Kelvin.
>

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