[Jakarta-commons Wiki] Update of "JEXL/1.1ReleasePlan" by RahulAkolkar

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The beginnings of the JEXL 1.1 release plan.

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== Release Plan For Commons JEXL 1.1 ==

=== Overall Status ===

The release is in the planning stage.

==== Release Manager ====

The release manager is '''TBD'''.

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=== Background ===

Commons JEXL is currently used by projects such as Jelly and Commons (Sandbox) SCXML. Several new features have been added since the 1.0 release, and a new release is planned to allow users (including downstream libraries) to pick up the additions past 1.0.

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=== Pre Release Tasks ===

==== Source / New Features ====

 * Enhance support of looping constructs: '''while''' and '''foreach'''
 * Bitwise operators
 * Treat '''Script''' as a first class entity as '''Expression'''
 * Other improvements available via the Commons JEXL revision history, available at: 
http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/jakarta/commons/proper/jexl/trunk/xdocs/changes.xml
 * Run the Checkstyle, Findbugs, PMD gamut.

==== Documentation ====

 * Improve JEXL documentation / site tutorial to cover new features in 1.1

===== Bug Review and Fixes =====

||'''Issue'''||'''Description'''||'''Severity'''||'''Reporter'''||'''Status'''||
||[http://issues.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=36857 36857]||Unary minus for non-integers||nor||Frédéric Bertin || (./) ||
||[http://issues.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=32110 32110]||Support assignment to variables||nor||Barry Lagerweij|| (./) ||
||[http://issues.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=32829 32829]||Method matching problem||nor||Paul Libbrecht || (./) ||


===== Check Compatibility =====

Check compatibility with JEXL 1.0

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=== Release Tasks ===

==== SVN ====

This release will take place against TRUNK.

==== Release Notes ====

These will be prepared in the traditional fashion.

==== Release Candidates ====

 * The first release candidate will be prepared shortly after the pre-release tasks are done.
 * A reasonable amount of time (a week or two) will be allowed for review and testing.
 * If no issues are reported during the review time, a release VOTE will be called.

==== Release Commons JEXL 1.1 VOTE ====

Details will be posted here once the release VOTE has concluded.

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=== Comments ===

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