[dna-dev] Releasing 0.6

[Randall Hauch]

During the 0.6 release cycle, we've added a few new features and fixed  
quite a few issues with the graph library, connectors, and JCR  
implementation [1].  In fact, a number of the issues required some  
fairly significant refactoring of the state management components in  
our JCR implementation.  The original 0.6 plan, however, was include a  
search and query feature.  I've made a lot of progress with search/ 
query, but I still have a few weeks of completing the feature  
development and integrating it with the connectors and JCR  
implementation.  There are also a number of outstanding issues that we  
need/want to fix, so I'd guess we're still a month away from the  
planned 0.6 release.

However, a number of people have taken a look at 0.5 recently, and  
they've run into some of the same issues that we've already fixed.   
They're currently using trunk, but have asked when the next stable  
release will be available.  We can either continue our current plans,  
or change our schedule a bit and release 0.6 without the search/query  
feature (or the fantastic Eclipse publishing plug-in).  For the  
record, we released 0.5 on June 11, and that's just under 3 months ago.

I'm leaning toward releasing 0.6 early and moving the search/query and  
Eclipse features to the following release (which may actually be a 1.0  
candidate).  That would require me putting aside the search/query  
stuff for a few days (maybe a week) so that I can focus on fixing a  
number of the more critical and high-priority issues (we still have a  
few TCK regressions that we should fix before releasing) and reviewing/ 
editing the documentation.  But I think it's worth it so that we can  
get another much more stable release out the door for people to use.

Please share your thoughts and comments.  I would like to decide  
within a day or two.

Best regards,

Randall

[1] https://jira.jboss.org/jira/browse/DNA?report=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.project:roadmap-panel