Re: Another beta?

[Dominik Stadler <do...@gmx.at>]

Hi,

I agree, doing the final before ApacheCon would be nice.

It seems we are currently not fixing all that many issues. So I think
we can only include major blockers that really would void a release, I
think the function-handling changes seem to not cause much regressions
so we are not that far away from a release.

Do we have a way of identifying issues in bugzilla which are blocking
the release so we know what we should concentrate on?

Thanks... Dominik.

On Wed, Sep 24, 2014 at 12:50 PM, kiwiwings <ki...@apache.org> wrote:
> If it's because of #54764, I don't mind a final, otherwise I think it would
> be nice to roll out something before the next ApacheCon, i.e. end of
> October.
>
> I'm still tweaking the XML signature stuff, but it would be nice, if someone
> give it a review, so maybe I can bring it into the final:
> https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/poi/branches/xml_signature/
>
> Things to look at:
> - Configuration stuff (SignatureConfig):
>   what's better, to configure everything in one place or per facet?
> - Dependencies: if one wants to use the dsign classes, they will need to
> include Bouncycastle and Apache Santuario. I've choosen Santuario to be
> compatible with IBM JDKs - but of course the classes (in an older revision)
> would be available in the Oracle JDK. Furthermore updates to xmlsec can be
> easier integrated.
> - Basic signing/validation looks ok, but the edge cases are a bit difficult
> to test, so I'm sure there will bug fixes in upcoming releases
> - Documentation ... left for later ;)
>
>
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Re: Another beta?

[Nick Burch <ap...@gagravarr.org>]

On Fri, 3 Oct 2014, Dominik Stadler wrote:
> Do we have a way of identifying issues in bugzilla which are blocking
> the release so we know what we should concentrate on?

The issue that's critical for you may not be critical for me, because 
there are so many different use-cases for Apache POI!

>From my perspective, the most important bugs are the ones with patches 
contributed by the community. With the fairly limited number of committers 
we have on the project, it isn't possible to fully support the whole 
codebase on our own. Our only hope for supporting everything is to rely on 
our wider community of users, contributors, testers etc to do much of the 
work.

That wider community will only bother contributing fixes / patches / 
documentation enhancements etc if we accept their contributions in a 
timely manner. If they submit something and we all ignore it, they're 
unlikely to stick around helping with anything else. Thus, in the long 
term interestings of the project, the most critical issues are the ones 
our community is trying to contribute towards!

Well, anything the community helps with, and anything that $DAYJOB cares 
about that is ;-)

Nick

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