[jboss-as7-dev] Community AS8 Roadmap Proposal

[Dimitris Andreadis]

Some comments from me:

- This is essentially 18.5 weeks remaining development time (including vacation) for a major 
release that encompasses non-timeboxable items (e.g. EE7 updates & TCK). Risky IMHO. Looking 
back to AS history I don't think we ever had such a short cycle for a major release, 
although I know we want to reduce the scope of major releases going forward.

- I think BLOCKER Jiras per milestone should be used. E.g TCK passing items for CR1, EE7 
feature completeness for Beta. Tracked items JIRAs should have the same priority with the 
tracker JIRA (e.g. AS7-6553 for EE) to have a better view of the work that needs to be done.

- Overlap with any to-be-committed backportable EAP functionality (e.g. patching) will also 
drag things back, resource wise.

- We need to align work with component leads for any potential updates that will bring in 
new features. Specify a component freeze date (AS8 Beta, June 11th? CR July 11th?) and try 
to stick to it. Clarify what exactly that date means because some teams interpret this as a 
cut off date for a Final component version, some other teams just provide a CR and infinite 
updates for an unspecified period of time :)

Overall the plan is great, we may need to add some more buffers.

/D

On 27/03/2013 23:57, Brian Stansberry wrote:
> Can we get Versions in JIRA for all these* plus a 9.0.0.CR1 to track
> main items for the next big dev cycle? I volunteer to do it. I'm itching
> to get my big pile of issues properly sorted into buckets. :-)
>
> * Well, not CR2 and Final which should only have stuff discovered after CR1
>
> 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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