[jbossws-dev] Status and direction

[Darran Lofthouse]

For myself I would probably say between 4 and 5 days before the 18th
June.  I am moving house in June so only really have time in May.

Regards,
Darran Lofthouse.


On Fri, 2007-04-20 at 10:25 +0200, Thomas Diesler wrote:
> Hi Folks,
> 
> please read this to the end - there is something todo for you. Merci.
> 
> We recently released
> 
> jbossws-1.2.1.GA    15-Apr   (to the community)
> jbossws-2.0.0.CR5   19-Apr   (only to the repository)
>    
> both releases were cut from trunk only a few days in between. As you 
> might have seen on core jbossws-2.0.0.CR5 is our fully JavaEE5 certified 
> stack - jbossws-1.2.1.GA is some minor issues short of that. Its a 
> little unfortunate that we missed the jboss-4.0.2.GA by those four days, 
> but then again we were never aiming at JavaEE5 compliance with jboss-4.2.x
> 
> Following our 8 week release cycle, jbossws-2.0.0.GA is targeted for 
> 1-Jul-2007 (giving some way for the lazy May). It will include some 
> outstanding bug fixes and stuff that comes up with the two releases above.
> 
> Concurrently we'll be working on general web service integration layers 
> for JBossAS and the ESB platform. We want to achieve plugability for 
> webservice implementations paving the way to run the Sun RI as an 
> alternative web service stack in both platforms. This is necessary 
> because we want to leverage the much needed WS-* funtionality from 
> project Tango (https://wsit.dev.java.net/specification-links.html)
> 
> This work will continue on trunk and be part of a future jbossws-2.1.0 
> release. We distribute our effort like this
> 
> jbossws-2.0.x   40%
> jbossws-2.1.x   60%
> 
> Between now and code freeze for jbossws-2.0.0.GA (18-Jun-2007) we have 
> roughly 40 working days, 16 of which should be spent on jbossws-2.0.0. I 
> calculate 1.5 issues per day, which leads to about 24 issues that could 
> be resolved in that time frame.
> 
> Please let me know how many workdays you can *actually* dedicate to 
> jbossws-2.0.0 until code freeze? The good people from support obviously 
> have much less than 40 wd on the other hand they can dedicate all their 
> dev time to jbossws-2.0.0
> 
> workdays dedicated for jbossws-2.0.0 until code freeze (18-Jun-2007)
> --------------------------------------------------------------------
> 
> Thomas: 12
> Heiko:
> Darran:
> Magesh:
> David:
> 
> 
> cheers
> -thomas
>