[jboss-as7-dev] Community AS8 Management API Changes and Freeze Dates

[Brian Stansberry]

A couple points re: allowing teams who provide management tooling for 
the AS to plan for AS 8:

1) Major subsystem changes

If you are responsible for a subsystem and expect to create a new 
subsystem for AS 8 or to make significant modifications to the 
management API exposed by an existing one, please reply to this thread 
with a brief summary of what you expect to do. This will give Heiko 
Braun a chance to plan.

2) Management API Freeze Dates

The roadmap Jason has laid out will of course involve some changes to 
the management APIs exposed by the AS core and by its subsystems. In 
order to allow tooling that depends on the management APIs to react to 
any changes we make, we'll need to complete changes to the management 
APIs in advance of the July 11 CR1 date.

After discussions with Heiko Braun, we agreed upon the following 
"freeze" dates for the management APIs:

1) June 11 (Beta release date) -- no new subsystems after this date, no 
substantial changes to the core management API after this date, no large 
new features in existing subsystems after this date.

2) June 25 -- final management API freeze. No further management API 
changes except minor bug fixes that will not affect the console.

If you have any concerns about making any of these dates, please speak 
up now.

Thanks,
-- Brian

On 3/27/13 12:28 PM, Jason Greene wrote:
> Hello Everyone,
>
> I am happy to announce a proposed roadmap for AS8. After some discussions with various AS developers and community members, the goals we think are important are:
>
> 1. Java EE7
> 2. Integration of Undertow (EE7 Web Sockets + performant non-blocking i/o)
> 3. Patching
> 4. Migration from JacORB to the JDK Orb
> 5. Transition to the new yet to be announced name
>
> I am proposing an agressive 6 month timeline for this release, with the following key milestones:
>
> May 7 - Release Alpha1
>    + Includes undertow, some ee7
> June 11 - Release Beta
>    + more progress on EE7
> July 11 - Release CR1
>    +  EE7 feature complete
> July 25 - Release CR2 if needed
>    (Hopefully TCK 100% by this date)
> August 8 - Release Final
>
> As usual the August 8th date is conditional on the Java EE certification process.
>
> I look forward to any and all feedback. Thanks!
>
> --
> Jason T. Greene
> JBoss AS Lead / EAP Platform Architect
> JBoss, a division of Red Hat
>
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-- 
Brian Stansberry
Principal Software Engineer
JBoss by Red Hat