[dna-dev] Preparation for 0.5 release

[Randall Hauch]

Just a quick status to let everyone know how the release is going.

We've spent the last few days completely rewriting and reorganizing  
the Getting Started and Reference Guide documents.  I'm very proud of  
the work that we've done with them, because they really are much  
improved.  The Getting Started document is a little smaller and more  
targeted toward an initial quickstart, while the Reference Guide has  
been expanded a great deal and now documents a lot of the different  
parts of JBoss DNA.

In my testing this evening, I discovered an issue (DNA-449) with the  
federation connector which stemmed from recent changes to the  
configuration.  I plan to fix this tomorrow morning, then update a few  
screenshots in the Getting Started doc (DNA-446), and follow that up  
with final integration testing and (if everything goes well) the final  
build and release process.  Then, of course, the emails and blog post  
with the announcement.

Thanks to Brian and Serge for their help over the last few days.   
There's a little more work to do, but we're almost there.  More to  
follow tomorrow.

Best regards,

Randall

On Jun 7, 2009, at 6:56 PM, Randall Hauch wrote:

> I spent much of this weekend reorganizing the Getting Started  
> document to better reflect the current state of the project as a JCR  
> implementation, to add documentation for the new configuration  
> mechanism, and to remove portions that are already (and better)  
> covered by the Reference Guide.  (In fact, there was a fair amount  
> of duplication between the two documents, so most of this has been  
> removed.)  I still need to complete my editing of the Reference  
> Guide.  Frankly, both documents needed more love than I had  
> anticipated, mostly because of the new configuration mechanism.   
> We're getting close, but there are a number of small loose ends.
>
> So I'd like to propose trying to release 0.5 this coming Wednesday  
> (June 10).  This will give me enough time to wrap up my edits of the  
> documents, plus it will give Brian the time he wants to finish the  
> work on the RESTful web app and corresponding documentation, which  
> will be a great addition.  In the meantime, I would appreciate some  
> reviewing/editing of the updated Getting Started guide (and soon the  
> updated Reference Guide, after you hear from me).  If you find any  
> mistakes, go ahead and log bugs in JIRA.  And if you can fix it, go  
> ahead and make the changes in the DocBook source within SVN.
>
> Any objections or suggestions otherwise?
>
> Best regards,
>
> Randall
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