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Posted to user@geronimo.apache.org by Matt Hogstrom <ma...@hogstrom.org> on 2006/12/20 16:27:59 UTC
Wow...2006 is almost gone
I'm cleaning up my hard drive and getting the end of the year stuff
done before I take some vacation time and it occurred to me how much
we've accomplished this year. Not only in Geronimo proper but also
in related projects like OpenEJB. I'm sure I'll miss some items so
when I do please chime in so they don't get forgotten.
Here are the highlights off the top of my head:
Released 5 Versions of Geronimo in a single year:
1.0 - January
1.1 - June
1.1.1 - September
For those that count poultry still in the shell:
1.2-beta - December
2.0-M1 - December
That is a really significant accomplishment and I'm really honored to
work with y'all to make this happen. This is not an insignificant
amount of work by any stretch of the imagination. We're even now in
the realm of delivering a Java EE 5.0 release within the SAME year as
the other projects and commercial vendors (and we'll beat some of
them too). This is awesome news.
We've improved our documentation, we've seen the community grow with
interested outside folks like LifeRay, Terracotta and slews of new
users and some interested developers. The committer list has grown
by several people and the PMC has some new members as well. Overall
our community is stronger at the end of 2006 than it was at the
beginning which is an excellent thing.
OpenEJB and ActiveMQ joined Apache and are in Incubator and moving
towards their own destinies as TLPs at Apache as well. XBean has
grown in its use in other projects and Geronimo has a much better
integration with Eclipse than we did previously (its nice to see the
GLogo in the server list). DayTrader has included support for JPA
and was used as the performance basis in our first Performance Report.
We've also moved from Maven 1 to Maven 2 for our build environment, a
feat that still boggles my mind. With the new plugins used to build
and take care of PITA issues like legal stuff every release gets
easier. Testing is also improving with some neat tests for the
console to detect breakage earlier.
We're almost there of JDK independence with the inclusion of Yoko.
Another very significant move for Geronimo and OpenEJB.
We've innovated with the plugins and including dojo in a way that
makes application development easier.
Looking back over the last year we've come a long way. Everyone of
you should be proud to be a part of this team in that together we are
creating software that has significance in the world and you all made
it happen.
For now I offer you a Merry Christmas, Happy Quanza, Happy Hanukkah,
Feliz Navidad, Happy Holidays, Winter Solstice or whatever your
favorite season greeting is. One of our greatest strengths is our
diversity and ability to appreciate each others differences as the
glue that brings us together and makes us a strong whole. We're
wrapping up the old and pressing on to the new. Let the adventure
continue :)
Cheers
Matt Hogstrom
matt@hogstrom.org
Re: Wow...2006 is almost gone
Posted by Matt Hogstrom <ma...@hogstrom.org>.
You made my day :) But in the tradition of Festivus I didn't want
to ... ummmm ... commercialize it. So in a way I paid it the air
time it is due :-0
On Dec 20, 2006, at 10:37 AM, Jeff Genender wrote:
>
>
> Matt Hogstrom wrote:
>> For now I offer you a Merry Christmas, Happy Quanza, Happy Hanukkah,
>> Feliz Navidad, Happy Holidays, Winter Solstice or whatever your
>> favorite
>> season greeting is.
>
> I am a bit offended that you did not mention Festivus.
>
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Festivus
>
> I take this holiday very seriously. We spent a lot of money on our
> aluminum pole in our living room.
>
> http://www.festivuspoles.com/pages/Festivuspoles.htm
>
> So I would appreciate that you please mention this holiday in the
> future, ok??
>
> Happy Festivus!
>
> Jeff
>
> ;-)
>
Matt Hogstrom
matt@hogstrom.org
Re: Wow...2006 is almost gone
Posted by Jeff Genender <jg...@apache.org>.
Matt Hogstrom wrote:
> For now I offer you a Merry Christmas, Happy Quanza, Happy Hanukkah,
> Feliz Navidad, Happy Holidays, Winter Solstice or whatever your favorite
> season greeting is.
I am a bit offended that you did not mention Festivus.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Festivus
I take this holiday very seriously. We spent a lot of money on our
aluminum pole in our living room.
http://www.festivuspoles.com/pages/Festivuspoles.htm
So I would appreciate that you please mention this holiday in the
future, ok??
Happy Festivus!
Jeff
;-)
Re: Wow...2006 is almost gone
Posted by Jacek Laskowski <ja...@laskowski.net.pl>.
On 12/20/06, Matt Hogstrom <ma...@hogstrom.org> wrote:
> I'm cleaning up my hard drive and getting the end of the year stuff
> done before I take some vacation time and it occurred to me how much
> we've accomplished this year. Not only in Geronimo proper but also
> in related projects like OpenEJB. I'm sure I'll miss some items so
> when I do please chime in so they don't get forgotten.
Very well said! I've been away for some time lately so it was really
nice to be able to read the summary of Geronimo accomplishments as the
very first email in the Geronimo folder of mine.
Thanks Matt and others who kept the pace so diligently. I'm very proud
of being part of the Geronimo community!
Jacek
--
Jacek Laskowski
http://www.jaceklaskowski.pl
Re: Wow...2006 is almost gone
Posted by Hernan Cunico <hc...@gmail.com>.
Wow Matt, great compilation. I almost forgot all we did this year.
Just to add to the list I would say that we also did a very much needed Web site "Face Lift".
Congratulations and Happy *ANY to everyone !!!
(those who ever worked with AS/400 know what I mean with *ANY ;-) )
Cheers!
Hernan
Matt Hogstrom wrote:
> I'm cleaning up my hard drive and getting the end of the year stuff done
> before I take some vacation time and it occurred to me how much we've
> accomplished this year. Not only in Geronimo proper but also in related
> projects like OpenEJB. I'm sure I'll miss some items so when I do
> please chime in so they don't get forgotten.
>
> Here are the highlights off the top of my head:
>
> Released 5 Versions of Geronimo in a single year:
>
> 1.0 - January
> 1.1 - June
> 1.1.1 - September
>
> For those that count poultry still in the shell:
> 1.2-beta - December
> 2.0-M1 - December
>
> That is a really significant accomplishment and I'm really honored to
> work with y'all to make this happen. This is not an insignificant
> amount of work by any stretch of the imagination. We're even now in the
> realm of delivering a Java EE 5.0 release within the SAME year as the
> other projects and commercial vendors (and we'll beat some of them
> too). This is awesome news.
>
> We've improved our documentation, we've seen the community grow with
> interested outside folks like LifeRay, Terracotta and slews of new users
> and some interested developers. The committer list has grown by several
> people and the PMC has some new members as well. Overall our community
> is stronger at the end of 2006 than it was at the beginning which is an
> excellent thing.
>
> OpenEJB and ActiveMQ joined Apache and are in Incubator and moving
> towards their own destinies as TLPs at Apache as well. XBean has grown
> in its use in other projects and Geronimo has a much better integration
> with Eclipse than we did previously (its nice to see the GLogo in the
> server list). DayTrader has included support for JPA and was used as
> the performance basis in our first Performance Report.
>
> We've also moved from Maven 1 to Maven 2 for our build environment, a
> feat that still boggles my mind. With the new plugins used to build and
> take care of PITA issues like legal stuff every release gets easier.
> Testing is also improving with some neat tests for the console to detect
> breakage earlier.
>
> We're almost there of JDK independence with the inclusion of Yoko.
> Another very significant move for Geronimo and OpenEJB.
>
> We've innovated with the plugins and including dojo in a way that makes
> application development easier.
>
> Looking back over the last year we've come a long way. Everyone of you
> should be proud to be a part of this team in that together we are
> creating software that has significance in the world and you all made it
> happen.
>
> For now I offer you a Merry Christmas, Happy Quanza, Happy Hanukkah,
> Feliz Navidad, Happy Holidays, Winter Solstice or whatever your favorite
> season greeting is. One of our greatest strengths is our diversity and
> ability to appreciate each others differences as the glue that brings us
> together and makes us a strong whole. We're wrapping up the old and
> pressing on to the new. Let the adventure continue :)
>
> Cheers
>
> Matt Hogstrom
> matt@hogstrom.org
>
>
>
Re: Wow...2006 is almost gone
Posted by Hernan Cunico <hc...@gmail.com>.
Wow Matt, great compilation. I almost forgot all we did this year.
Just to add to the list I would say that we also did a very much needed Web site "Face Lift".
Congratulations and Happy *ANY to everyone !!!
(those who ever worked with AS/400 know what I mean with *ANY ;-) )
Cheers!
Hernan
Matt Hogstrom wrote:
> I'm cleaning up my hard drive and getting the end of the year stuff done
> before I take some vacation time and it occurred to me how much we've
> accomplished this year. Not only in Geronimo proper but also in related
> projects like OpenEJB. I'm sure I'll miss some items so when I do
> please chime in so they don't get forgotten.
>
> Here are the highlights off the top of my head:
>
> Released 5 Versions of Geronimo in a single year:
>
> 1.0 - January
> 1.1 - June
> 1.1.1 - September
>
> For those that count poultry still in the shell:
> 1.2-beta - December
> 2.0-M1 - December
>
> That is a really significant accomplishment and I'm really honored to
> work with y'all to make this happen. This is not an insignificant
> amount of work by any stretch of the imagination. We're even now in the
> realm of delivering a Java EE 5.0 release within the SAME year as the
> other projects and commercial vendors (and we'll beat some of them
> too). This is awesome news.
>
> We've improved our documentation, we've seen the community grow with
> interested outside folks like LifeRay, Terracotta and slews of new users
> and some interested developers. The committer list has grown by several
> people and the PMC has some new members as well. Overall our community
> is stronger at the end of 2006 than it was at the beginning which is an
> excellent thing.
>
> OpenEJB and ActiveMQ joined Apache and are in Incubator and moving
> towards their own destinies as TLPs at Apache as well. XBean has grown
> in its use in other projects and Geronimo has a much better integration
> with Eclipse than we did previously (its nice to see the GLogo in the
> server list). DayTrader has included support for JPA and was used as
> the performance basis in our first Performance Report.
>
> We've also moved from Maven 1 to Maven 2 for our build environment, a
> feat that still boggles my mind. With the new plugins used to build and
> take care of PITA issues like legal stuff every release gets easier.
> Testing is also improving with some neat tests for the console to detect
> breakage earlier.
>
> We're almost there of JDK independence with the inclusion of Yoko.
> Another very significant move for Geronimo and OpenEJB.
>
> We've innovated with the plugins and including dojo in a way that makes
> application development easier.
>
> Looking back over the last year we've come a long way. Everyone of you
> should be proud to be a part of this team in that together we are
> creating software that has significance in the world and you all made it
> happen.
>
> For now I offer you a Merry Christmas, Happy Quanza, Happy Hanukkah,
> Feliz Navidad, Happy Holidays, Winter Solstice or whatever your favorite
> season greeting is. One of our greatest strengths is our diversity and
> ability to appreciate each others differences as the glue that brings us
> together and makes us a strong whole. We're wrapping up the old and
> pressing on to the new. Let the adventure continue :)
>
> Cheers
>
> Matt Hogstrom
> matt@hogstrom.org
>
>
>