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Keep the help from all corners coming. We really need to get this baby delivered!<BR>
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Great job everyone!<BR>
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Andy<BR>
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On Sat, 2008-02-09 at 01:05 +0200, Dimitris Andreadis wrote:
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<FONT COLOR="#000000">...and will soon be released by Rajesh.</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000"><A HREF="https://svn.jboss.org/repos/jbossas/tags/JBoss_5_0_0_Beta4/">https://svn.jboss.org/repos/jbossas/tags/JBoss_5_0_0_Beta4/</A></FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">Trunk is unfrozen again for everyone that wants to commit work towards CR1. Remember that we </FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">want to stabilize things, not break them.</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">There are 122 tasks to choose from, for a period of 6 weeks after JBW, so plenty of work there:</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000"><A HREF="http://jira.jboss.com/jira/browse/JBAS">http://jira.jboss.com/jira/browse/JBAS</A></FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">Please note a few things:</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">- Current (very aggressive) target for AS5 CR1 is Mar/31st. The only way to make it is to </FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">*deal only the essential stuff*. Everything else, should be pushed to a future 5.1 release, </FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">or be unscheduled. Be ruthless with re-scheduling.</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">- CR1 must be 100% at TCK, so that adds an extra flavor to the deal and a very big challenge </FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">for the EJB3 team, as it makes up a big part of the remaining work.</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">- Thirdparty libs & component updates are expected around mid-March.</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">- The relatively idle week of JBW is ideal for coming up with a viable (step-by-step?) </FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">solution to the AS mavenization issue. Follow the discussion here:</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000"><A HREF="http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4128013#4128013">http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4128013#4128013</A></FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">We'll come up with a more detailed CR1 plan after JBW.</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">It has been a very productive quarter for AS5 (2 Betas in the last 3 months), so I would </FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">like to congratulate everyone that worked on this nearly impossible mission and hope we keep </FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">the momentum going while getting closer to the final release (or burn in hell :)</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">Lately, I saw some new names committing stuff and fixing testsuite failures in trunk, so </FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">that was really great to see the help coming where we need it most.</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">Cheers</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">/Dimitris</FONT>
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