Re: 1.1 Release is gearing up...let's start stting the release goals

[Erik D <er...@schematown.org>]

Matt,

I need the rest of the week to get the installer ready.

I have at least two more patches to provide before I'm finished. I
should have them done by the end of the week.

regards,

erik

On Tue, 2006-03-28 at 11:04 -0500, Matt Hogstrom wrote:
> All,
> 
> Dain and David have mostly completed their work in branches/1.1.  Given that the 
> easy part of the change has been done its time to start thinking about getting 
> 1.1 out the door.
> 
> The theme for 1.1 I think is appropriate is bug fixes, performance improvements 
> and new features.
> 
> Here is the order I'd like to proceed with to get 1.1 released:
> 
> 1. Get the 1.1 release stabilized and freeze changes temporarily.
> 2. Run the TCK and confirm that what we have passes CTS.
> 3. Upgrade a limited set of function into 1.1 that is fiarly atomic.
> 4. Complete a final CTS run and then release 1.1 to the world.
> 
> As far as the upgrades I expect that there is a lot of function people would 
> like to drop in.  Based on what I've seen on the list in terms of discussion 
> here is my initial list.  I think a 1.1 release with just the configId changes 
> isn't really that dramatic from a user perspective so I think we need to add 
> some additional content.
> 
> * Upgrade TranQL and TranQL Connector to 1.3 and 1.2 respectively.  I've added a 
> statement cache that gives about a 30% performance boost on JDBC primitives in 
> DayTrader.  I think this is a significant improvement over 1.0 and is fairly 
> limited in its scope.
> 
> * Upgrade ActiveMQ to Version 4.  I don't know all the changes so we need 
> Hiram's input here but I think some of the improvements included improved 
> configurability.
> 
> * Upgrade the Jetty Version to address the security problem we noted in 1.0.
> 
> * I'll compile a list of outstanding JIRA's for 1.0 and give a first triage on 
> them today.
> 
> * Tech preview of the installer.  Erik, I think that it is ready to go, is this 
> correct?
> 
> Please respond with your input in terms of what should be included.  Please 
> consider that we have only a week or so to get them incorporated before we start 
> the final TCK run.
> 
> Personally I'd like to shoot for a 1.2 by JavaOne (or at least June if we can't 
> make JavaOne) with some improvements targetted at the schizophrenic server :), 
> ahem, flexible server.)  It would be nice to have something to showcase at 
> ApacheCon in June as well as the TSS Europe.
> 
> Let the creative juices flow.
> 
> Matt
> 
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