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Posted to dev@mina.apache.org by Trustin Lee <tr...@gmail.com> on 2007/10/14 04:55:08 UTC
Apache MINA Board Report, October 2007
Here's the July 2007 board report for the Apache MINA project.
(http://mina.apache.org) I apologize for the delayed report; I missed
the first notification message by mistake. Because there's nothing
confidential in this report and it contains a lot of useful
information for users, I will CC our public mailing list, too. Also,
please let us know if we are missing some important point, which will
help us create the road map.
Releases
========
We cut six new minor releases: 1.0.4, 1.0.5, 1.0.6, 1.1.1, 1.1.2 and
1.1.3. The new releases contain backward-compatible minor
improvements and several bug fixes. We didn't announce the news for
1.0.6 and 1.1.3, but it's on the way.
Community
=========
Mike Heath, long time MINA committer, has shown his continuing
contribution to the project, and has been promoted to be a PMC member.
Maarten Bosteels, another long time community member and document
contributor, has been added to our committer list.
Niclas Hedman, the mentor of the FTPServer project in the Incubator,
asked about the possibility of hosting the FTPServer project under
MINA project. All PMC members expressed positive opinion, so we are
going to start a vote for adopting the FTPServer project.
As the MINA core itself becomes more and more mature, people started
to ask about out-of-the-box protocol codecs for well-known protocols
such as HTTP, FTP, SMTP and ISO 8583 which will potentially boost up
server development in an order of magnitude. We agreed that AsyncWeb
(received software grant), FTPServer (under incubation) and ISO 8583
(need to contact the existing community) are going to be a great
addition to the project. Jeff Genender, the Geronimo committer and
member, also donated HTTP client module for MINA. Of course, all
these additions should occur in the manageable extent, and we believe
we can.
Due to the massive class renaming and refactoring, we are getting many
questions about disappeared classes recently. It means much more
people than we expected are using the development branch, and it can
possibly lead to complaints of the users. Releasing 2.0.0-M1, the
first milestone of the next generation of MINA, as soon as possible
will remedy situation.
Due to the high flexibility and generic API, users often find
themselves difficulty in choosing the right way to implement a
protocol codec. We need to improve documentation on this area to
reduce the ratio of the questions in the mailing list.
Our web site has been revamped to attractive more people. We also
added a link to Nabble.com mailing list archive for those who are not
used to the mailing list.
Features
========
Julien Vermillard, our most active committer and PMC member, added
preliminary support for APR transport. This means MINA now can
utilize ASF's high-performance and cross-platform library for network
operations. All the existing MINA applications will benefit from this
thanks to the highly abstract nature of MINA API.
Trustin Lee refactored the trunk massively to make implementing a new
transport very easily. Julien's APR transport will be the first
customer of this change. Thanks to this change, a lot of code
duplication has been removed.
Maarten Bosteels added MDC injection filter that helps to create more
understandable communication logs.
A brand new asynchronous HTTP client was contributed by Jeff Genender
and integrated into MINA codebase by Mark Webb
Issues
======
As OSGi framework becomes a buzzword in the market, people keeps
asking about providing OSGi bundles for MINA artifacts. We've been
relying on the Maven 2 plugin provided by the Felix project, but we
dropped the support because it doesn't work pretty well with
multi-project layout. We temporarilly concluded to wait for the
plugin to fix the bug.
Logging framework, again, arose as an issue. Users seem to have
difficulties configuring SLF4J, so we added a dedicated page for
configuring SLF4J for MINA in our documentation section.
Most PMC members agreed on moving Niklas's state machine module to the
trunk. Strictly speaking, it doesn't depend on MINA core, but it is
very clear that it is designed to work very well with MINA and
protocol implementation.
Cheers,
Trustin
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Re: Apache MINA Board Report, October 2007
Posted by Julien Vermillard <jv...@archean.fr>.
On Mon, 15 Oct 2007 18:30:00 +0900
"Trustin Lee" <tr...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I also forgot to mention that Julien provided me summarized form of
> this report so I was able to finish the report sooner than I expected.
> Thank you Julien!
>
> Trustin
No problem, it wasn't a very precise resume :) Thanks to you to carry
this task from the beginning.
While we are talking about the board report, we thought the next time
it would be a good idea to do it on the Wiki so all the involved people
could help to fill the report.
WDYT ?
Julien
Re: Apache MINA Board Report, October 2007
Posted by Trustin Lee <tr...@gmail.com>.
I also forgot to mention that Julien provided me summarized form of
this report so I was able to finish the report sooner than I expected.
Thank you Julien!
Trustin
On 10/14/07, Trustin Lee <tr...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Here's the July 2007 board report for the Apache MINA project.
> (http://mina.apache.org) I apologize for the delayed report; I missed
> the first notification message by mistake. Because there's nothing
> confidential in this report and it contains a lot of useful
> information for users, I will CC our public mailing list, too. Also,
> please let us know if we are missing some important point, which will
> help us create the road map.
>
> Releases
> ========
> We cut six new minor releases: 1.0.4, 1.0.5, 1.0.6, 1.1.1, 1.1.2 and
> 1.1.3. The new releases contain backward-compatible minor
> improvements and several bug fixes. We didn't announce the news for
> 1.0.6 and 1.1.3, but it's on the way.
>
> Community
> =========
> Mike Heath, long time MINA committer, has shown his continuing
> contribution to the project, and has been promoted to be a PMC member.
>
> Maarten Bosteels, another long time community member and document
> contributor, has been added to our committer list.
>
> Niclas Hedman, the mentor of the FTPServer project in the Incubator,
> asked about the possibility of hosting the FTPServer project under
> MINA project. All PMC members expressed positive opinion, so we are
> going to start a vote for adopting the FTPServer project.
>
> As the MINA core itself becomes more and more mature, people started
> to ask about out-of-the-box protocol codecs for well-known protocols
> such as HTTP, FTP, SMTP and ISO 8583 which will potentially boost up
> server development in an order of magnitude. We agreed that AsyncWeb
> (received software grant), FTPServer (under incubation) and ISO 8583
> (need to contact the existing community) are going to be a great
> addition to the project. Jeff Genender, the Geronimo committer and
> member, also donated HTTP client module for MINA. Of course, all
> these additions should occur in the manageable extent, and we believe
> we can.
>
> Due to the massive class renaming and refactoring, we are getting many
> questions about disappeared classes recently. It means much more
> people than we expected are using the development branch, and it can
> possibly lead to complaints of the users. Releasing 2.0.0-M1, the
> first milestone of the next generation of MINA, as soon as possible
> will remedy situation.
>
> Due to the high flexibility and generic API, users often find
> themselves difficulty in choosing the right way to implement a
> protocol codec. We need to improve documentation on this area to
> reduce the ratio of the questions in the mailing list.
>
> Our web site has been revamped to attractive more people. We also
> added a link to Nabble.com mailing list archive for those who are not
> used to the mailing list.
>
> Features
> ========
> Julien Vermillard, our most active committer and PMC member, added
> preliminary support for APR transport. This means MINA now can
> utilize ASF's high-performance and cross-platform library for network
> operations. All the existing MINA applications will benefit from this
> thanks to the highly abstract nature of MINA API.
>
> Trustin Lee refactored the trunk massively to make implementing a new
> transport very easily. Julien's APR transport will be the first
> customer of this change. Thanks to this change, a lot of code
> duplication has been removed.
>
> Maarten Bosteels added MDC injection filter that helps to create more
> understandable communication logs.
>
> A brand new asynchronous HTTP client was contributed by Jeff Genender
> and integrated into MINA codebase by Mark Webb
>
> Issues
> ======
> As OSGi framework becomes a buzzword in the market, people keeps
> asking about providing OSGi bundles for MINA artifacts. We've been
> relying on the Maven 2 plugin provided by the Felix project, but we
> dropped the support because it doesn't work pretty well with
> multi-project layout. We temporarilly concluded to wait for the
> plugin to fix the bug.
>
> Logging framework, again, arose as an issue. Users seem to have
> difficulties configuring SLF4J, so we added a dedicated page for
> configuring SLF4J for MINA in our documentation section.
>
> Most PMC members agreed on moving Niklas's state machine module to the
> trunk. Strictly speaking, it doesn't depend on MINA core, but it is
> very clear that it is designed to work very well with MINA and
> protocol implementation.
>
> Cheers,
> Trustin
> --
> what we call human nature is actually human habit
> --
> http://gleamynode.net/
> --
> PGP Key ID: 0x0255ECA6
>
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Re: Apache MINA Board Report, October 2007
Posted by Trustin Lee <tr...@gmail.com>.
On 10/14/07, Trustin Lee <tr...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Here's the July 2007 board report for the Apache MINA project.
It's actually the October 2007 board report as you already noticed.
Apologies,
Trustin
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