REMINDER -- Rampdown to ApacheCon and Alpha

[Heather Stephens <he...@bea.com>]

REMINDER:  Today is the day we're shooting for to pick an alpha RC rev
number.

-----Original Message-----
From: Heather Stephens 
Sent: Thursday, October 28, 2004 11:40 AM
To: Beehive Developers
Subject: Rampdown to ApacheCon and Alpha


Here's a timing guideline to lead us to our V1 alpha release.  I backed
into it assuming we need to ship by 11/12/2004 to hit ApacheCon.

At the bottom of this email is a reminder of our goals and non-goals for
this alpha release.

http://wiki.apache.org/beehive/ApacheCon2004?action=show


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Timing guideline
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10/27/2004 -- Branch 

10/29/2004 -- Review doc, sample and tutorial materials for
completeness, functionality and accuracy. 

10/31/2004 -- Known dev and docs/samples/tutorials work that is included
in the distribution complete.  Checkin test pass.  Additional test
suites have been run along the way.  Folks doing sessions & demos at
ApacheCon believe the code base is in good shape.  Egregious "can't ship
without" bugs on alpha quality have been filed.

11/1/2004 -- Fix any last minute items. 

11/2/2004 -- Choose changelist as distribution and begin final test
passes 

11/8/2004 (latest) -- Call official vote on V1 alpha release (choose a
revision number as a candidate for the alpha distribution)

11/10/2004 EOD -- Close vote 

11/11/2004 -- Tally votes, send results, roll and sign distribution,
send announcement emails to Apache lists


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Release Goals/NonGoals
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Goals

  ** Practice the release process so we can begin to work out the kinks

  ** Binary distribution available

  ** Demoable for conference sessions

  ** Enough supporting materials (sample applications, feature samples,
documentation, tutorials, etc.) to generate interest in Beehive, begin
to build a more active user community and get useful feedback on the
current feature set. 


Non-goals

  ** Feature complete

  ** APIs locked

  ** Beta-quality

  ** Guarantee of backwards compat