All,
I think it's time we started thinking about the next
release. We haven't had a release in a year, and while
there haven't been any major changes, we have fixed a
whole host of bugs, and we have acquired new items in
the sandbox. Also there has been major progress in
UIMA-AS, which needs a new release.
I'll volunteer to be the release manager for this
release, but if anybody else would like to try their
hand, I'd be more than happy to forgo the honor.
Here are some things we should think about for the
next release, in no particular order.
* Getting releases approved by the incubator PMC is
intensely painful. I therefore suggest, if we can,
to release everything at the same time, so we have to
go through the process only once. By everything I mean
the Java core, UIMA-AS, and whatever of the sandbox
we want to release. I'm not sure anything has happened
in C++ land since the first release, but we might want
to do a release anyway to get the version numbers
aligned.
* We have had some earlier discussions about changing
our release packaging a bit. This concerns the sandbox
in particular, as there are things in there that are
quite stable enough to graduate from there to a place
still to be created. This needs to be discussed, I don't
have a concrete proposal.
* If we have the time and the volunteers, we should
take a look at our Eclipse based tooling. Can we add
the CAS Editor to our standard tooling? Can we incorporate
code/ideas from the CAS Viewer as we had planned some
time ago? What version of Eclipse do we still want to
support, i.e., can we prereq 3.4? I might be able to
help with the tooling, but I'm afraid of breaking things
for older versions of Eclipse as I only took up Eclipse
programming recently.
* The version number: we could go with 2.3, or 2.2.3.
Arguments could be found for each, I don't have a strong
opinion.
Time frame (straw man proposal):
6/15 end of coding, only bug fixes after this point
6/22 end of testing, create distribution and submit for
release vote
6/30 release
I'll be incommunicado for two weeks starting this Friday,
but I wanted to kick this discussion of before I left. I
do think it's high time we did a release. Please let me
know what you think (and if you'd rather be the RM ;-).
--Thilo
