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