Re: [Studio] Releasing a first milestone for version 2.0 (2.0.0-M1) soon?

[Pierre-Arnaud Marcelot <pa...@marcelot.net>]

Thanks for your answers guys.

I have committed the final updates for a release of this version (mainly features and updatesite related) and I will try to propose a release tomorrow.

It will be a good test to see if we're still able to release the project more than 20 months after the last release (so many things have changed…).

In order to release Studio, I will also need to release versions of Shared (LDAP API) and ApacheDS.
I'm wondering if we should consider these releases as new milestone release for these two projects (1.0.0-M9 for Shared and 2.0.0-M4 for ApacheDS).
WDYT?

About the Studio release, development isn't over yet. There are still some things to tweak and update (like the documentation, a few translations missing), as well as small know issues, like an issue with the SchemaManager not reporting a few error case when checking the schema.
But, overall, the application works great and I expect to address all of these issues in the next iterations.

So, tomorrow, be ready for some release commits (with rollbacks I guess, as usual…) and a new vote thread to celebrate 2012.

Cheers,
Pierre-Arnaud

On 20 déc. 2011, at 22:19, Alex Karasulu wrote:

> 
> 
> On Tue, Dec 20, 2011 at 9:32 PM, Emmanuel Lecharny <el...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 12/20/11 7:09 PM, Pierre-Arnaud Marcelot wrote:
> Hi (again) guys,
> 
> As you might have noticed, I took some time last week to go on a JIRA fixing campaign on Apache Directory Studio.
> 
> With the recent developments, I think we are nearing a possible release of a first milestone for version 2.0.
> Of course, it still needs some work but various reasons makes me think we should probably consider releasing the first milestone really soon:
> 
> 1°/ It's been more than 20 months since the last release (April 5th, 2010).
> That's really a shame, but it's the reality… :(
> Such a long time without a release gives a very bad impression on users.
> Almost like if Studio was an abandoned project...
> 
> 2°/ Milestone releases worked well on the API and ApacheDS.
> We've had some great results from milestone releases on these projects.
> Even if they are not stable and production-ready yet, they have helped us get back in touch with our users and forced us to focus on specific key-features for each iteration.
> 
> 3°/ A hell lot of things have changed in Studio, with lots of improvements and bug fixes.
> I can't name everything but it includes things like:
> - the inclusion of the Apache Directory LDAP API as network provider (as a replacement for JNDI - which is still selectable)
> - the use of Shared's SchemaManager in the Schema Editor
> - the rewrite of the ApacheDS plugins into something more open, the LDAP Servers plugin
> - the new ApacheDS V2 Configuration Plugin which edits via LDAP and LDIF the configuration of an ApacheDS 2.0 server
> - the update of Eclipse dependencies and launchers to the latest and greatest versions
> - many bug fixes, improvements and feature requests
> 
> This mail isn't to vote about the release yet. A few things really need to be polished first.
> But I'd like to get your thoughts about a possible release of a first milestone for version 2.0 in the next days/weeks.
> 
> It will be a milestone, you don't have to be too cautious, IMO. Just go for it when you think it's ready.
> 
> 
> Agree w/ Emm here ... 
> 
> -- 
> Best Regards,
> -- Alex
> 

Re: [Studio] Releasing a first milestone for version 2.0 (2.0.0-M1) soon?

[Emmanuel Lecharny <el...@gmail.com>]

On 1/5/12 5:34 PM, Pierre-Arnaud Marcelot wrote:
> Thanks for your answers guys.
>
> I have committed the final updates for a release of this version (mainly features and updatesite related) and I will try to propose a release tomorrow.
>
> It will be a good test to see if we're still able to release the project more than 20 months after the last release (so many things have changed…).
>
> In order to release Studio, I will also need to release versions of Shared (LDAP API) and ApacheDS.
> I'm wondering if we should consider these releases as new milestone release for these two projects (1.0.0-M9 for Shared and 2.0.0-M4 for ApacheDS).
> WDYT?

We can do that. Although we won't advertize such a Milestone on the web 
site, as it's just a matter for you to have a released version of the 
server. I can cut a release we can vote if you need it.


-- 
Regards,
Cordialement,
Emmanuel Lécharny
www.iktek.com