[jboss-dev] AS 5.1 Component Project Schedule

[Jason T. Greene]

David M. Lloyd wrote:
> On 02/04/2009 01:50 PM, Jason T. Greene wrote:
>> Project Leads,
>>
>> The next planned AS release is 5.1 Beta which we are targeting for a 
>> March release, and a following GA in April (provided no major problems).
> 
> Something that has come up a few times since even a while before the 5.0 
> release is updating all the AS components to more effectively use 
> jbossmc classloader/deployment facilities to do all kinds of wonderful 
> things like:
> 
> - Carefully controlling what APIs are available to what types of 
> deployments
> - Only starting up services that are needed, through clever use of 
> on-demand imports and that sort of thing
> - Changing or improving the way profiles are built to make the distro 
> more space-efficient
> - etc.
> 
> It usually goes like this.  Someone brings up something peripheral to 
> this, and I or one of the MC guys would say, "hey this stuff is all 
> possible to do", then folks like Sacha would come in and say "this 
> sounds great!", everyone would get enthused, and then everyone would 
> just kind of stare at their shoes and hope that someone else would make 
> it happen.
> 
> I know that at least a couple new projects are doing this, going 
> forward, but is there any chance we could start this process for 5.1 for 
> existing stuff?  Maybe start by attaching jboss-classloading.xml and so 
> forth to the various libraries and/or moving them in with their related 
> deployers, figuring out what it would take to get the deployers only 
> linking the right APIs to the various deployment types, etc.  Just 
> brainstorming some ideas would be a great start.  From there it could 
> move to a wiki page for requirements and/or a JIRA task list, etc.  Is 
> there a person who is actually *on* the AS team who could take point on 
> this, for existing components?  Or should we officially just let the 
> idea die for 5.x?
> 

I am hoping we can keep the scope narrow for 5.1 (embedded console and 
related profile service work + component updates). So I think we should 
delay this work until 6.x.

Although if anyone wants to get a head start and do this for their 
project in 5.1 that's fine with me, as long as it doesn't delay the 
schedule.

-- 
Jason T. Greene
JBoss, a division of Red Hat