Looks like AS will have beta1 and beta2 releases, so I am wondering if we can follow the same here? :-) Given that the alpha won't be out untill next week, my concern is a real "beta" by 11/15 will be a bit too short given this is a major release.

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From: Bela Ban
Sent: Friday, October 27, 2006 4:29 AM
To: Brian Stansberry
Cc: Manik Surtani; Ben Wang; Vladimir Blagojevic
Subject: Re: FW: Beta Release for AS 5

+1 from me, but Manik's the one to decide really...

Brian Stansberry wrote:

Do you guys see any problem having a 2.0.0.Beta available by say 11/15 or so?  It would just need to support the existing AS use cases; i.e. anything extra we want for 2.0.0.GA doesn't need to be in it.

Brian Stansberry
Lead, AS Clustering
JBoss, a division of Red Hat
Ph: 510-396-3864
skype: bstansberry

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From: Andy Miller
Sent: Tuesday, October 24, 2006 7:37 PM
To: Scott M Stark; Anil Saldhana; Thomas Diesler; Jason T. Greene; Carlo de Wolf; Bill Burke; Adrian Brock; Brian Stansberry
Subject: Beta Release for AS 5

Guys,

     Based on my earlier thread to gather input for a Beta release of AS 5 we arrived at a hard date of December 8th.  That Beta would have the basics working, but not be the final design of the MC/Deployer stuff, and the profile service would not have the management API defined and implemented.  We will follow with a second Beta which will clean-up everything, incorporate any refactoring necessary, and add the management API for JBoss ON to the profile service.

Since then, there has been some additional discussion about can we release something by JBoss World, which as you know, is November 20th.

So here's the challenge.  Release an AS 5 that has deployers on the new MC that work, has decent TCK coverage for EJB 3 and WS working, and has the JGroups/JBoss Cache releases integrated, all from HEAD by November 20th.

Let's accept this challenge, and if you guys can pull it off, I'll find a way to reward each of you for the effort.

Thanks.

Andrig (Andy) Miller VP, Engineering JBoss, a division of Red Hat

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Bela Ban
Lead JGroups / Manager JBoss Clustering Group
JBoss - a division of Red Hat