[jboss-dev] 4-week plan for AS5 Beta4

[Dimitris Andreadis]

Hello all,

We decided to produce one more Beta release for AS5 (Beta4) targeting JBW this time. Leaving 
the last week for final testing and release tasks this practically means we have 4 week to 
execute on this plan, until Feb/1st.

The release criteria include:

(1)
http://jira.jboss.com/jira/browse/JBAS-5098 - Deal with vfs, aop, jbossxb performance issues
New releases of the associated component will be most probably needed.

(2)
Profile service completeness and demonstrated usage through the new management console
http://jira.jboss.com/jira/browse/JBAS-4378 - management CRUD usecases
http://jira.jboss.com/jira/browse/JBAS-4396 - support for managing Datasources and JMS

http://jira.jboss.com/jira/browse/JBAS-3170 - ProfileService Bootstrapping of the MC
http://jira.jboss.com/jira/browse/JBAS-3768 - initial persistent format of the profile 
repository

There is also the task of avoiding the metadata vs metavalue type leakage, but AFAIK it is 
not documented in JIRA.

(3)
Moving away from the UnifiedClassloader, needs further discussion:
http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4117632#4117632

(4)
Adrian's refactoring of deployer implementation
http://jira.jboss.com/jira/browse/JBAS-5044
http://jira.jboss.com/jira/browse/JBAS-5046

(5)
Anil's redo of the security deployer based on the new metadata
http://jira.jboss.com/jira/browse/JBAS-5046 (or point to new case)

(6)
- Separation of the EJB3 module into it's own external project.
- Complete the annotation and extended persistency work (JIRA tasks?)
- EJB3/TCK improvements

(7)
Testsuite improvements - currently at 93%
http://jira.jboss.com/jira/browse/JBAS-4635
http://hudson.qa.jboss.com/hudson/view/JBoss%20AS/job/JBoss-AS-5.0.x-TestSuite-sun15/

(8)
Further component updates, preferably completed by Jan/18th, drop-dead date Jan/25th 
(without exceptions).

http://jira.jboss.com/jira/browse/JBAS-4648 - Upgrade jboss transactions to 4.3.0.GA

http://jira.jboss.com/jira/browse/JBAS-4725 - Upgrade Hibernate to 3.3.x

http://jira.jboss.com/jira/browse/JBAS-5029 - Integrate jboss-ha-server-api.jar
http://jira.jboss.com/jira/browse/JBAS-5030 - Upgrade jboss-ha-client.jar to 1.0.0.GA

http://jira.jboss.com/jira/browse/JBAS-5087- Upgrade to JBoss Cache 2.1.0.GA
http://jira.jboss.com/jira/browse/JBAS-2251 - Fix JBoss Cache / AS integration issues

http://jira.jboss.com/jira/browse/JBAS-5060 - Upgrade jfreechart to v1.0.2
http://jira.jboss.com/jira/browse/JBAS-4148 - Replace Gjt code

(9)
Stabilize the jdk16 build, it doesn't currently run to full completion:
http://jira.jboss.com/jira/browse/JBAS-5031
http://hudson.qa.jboss.com/hudson/view/JBoss%20AS/job/JBoss-AS-5.0.x-TestSuite-sun16/

(10)
Need everyone to help with a good JBAS JIRA cleanup since 137 issues in 4 weeks is simply 
impossible. Please raise to blockers/criticals all the important issues and reschedule the 
lower priority ones.

Look at tasks assigned to you, here:
http://jira.jboss.com/jira/secure/IssueNavigator.jspa?mode=hide&requestId=12311444

Tasks reported by you:
http://jira.jboss.com/jira/secure/IssueNavigator.jspa?mode=hide&requestId=12311445

Unassigned ones:
http://jira.jboss.com/jira/secure/IssueNavigator.jspa?mode=hide&requestId=12311447

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If you have issues with this plan or there are important things we've missed, drop me a 
line. It's quite optimistic as it is, so please focus on the important tasks trying to 
stabilize what we have. Keep an eye on the testsuite runs, *we must not break what already 
works* :-) With very few exceptions (ProfileService) the time for new features is already gone.

Thanks a bunch
/Dimitris



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Dimitris Andreadis
JBoss AS, Project Lead
JBoss, a Division of Red Hat
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