[seam-dev] Seam 3.1 beta release, take two

[John D. Ament]

I have cycles this week.  At a minimum, I'll take care of JCR and JMS.  If
anyone else has any modules they need help with let me know.

John

On Mon, Aug 22, 2011 at 5:48 AM, Shane Bryzak <sbryzak at redhat.com> wrote:

> Guys and girls,
>
> In the interest of moving things forward, I'm going to shortly start
> working on the beta 2 release.  There are still some issues that we're
> working through with the multi-container testsuite configuration,
> however with some help I've been able to resurrect the existing tests in
> Solder to run in the latest version of Arquillian and I'm confident that
> I can get the tests in the other modules passing successfully without
> too much trouble.  I would still like us to press on with the test suite
> work, however I don't want it to hold up the release schedule.
>
> Since the Beta1 release there have been a couple of important changes,
> which I'll quickly summarise here:
>
> 1) seam-parent is now at the top of the food chain and no longer
> inherits its configuration from weld-parent.  This change is good for a
> couple of reasons, first of all the disassociation from the Weld project
> will help to reinforce that Seam is CDI implementation-independent.
> Secondly it gives us total control over configuration for the Maven
> plugins that we use, allowing us to update the plugin versions (which
> I've already done, to the latest version of each plugin) and fine tune
> the plugin configuration parameters for Seam.
>
> 2) I've decided against moving the logging feature out of Solder and
> into its own module for now, as I discovered that it was too tightly
> coupled to Solder to "de-tangle" it easily.  I have however refactored
> the logging API classes into their own package, org.jboss.seam.logging
> which I think will be more intuitive for our users.  I believe that the
> Solder reference documentation still needs to be updated in response to
> the changes made for SOLDER-102
> (http://issues.jboss.org/browse/SOLDER-102) - Ken, could you please
> confirm?  If so, would you be willing to update the reference docs to
> reflect the logging changes?
>
> I am aiming for the Beta2 release this coming weekend, which means with
> our 20+ modules now I need to get started pretty soon.  If anyone has
> any spare cycles and is able to help out with this, it would be greatly
> appreciated.  Each module needs to have its tests fixed, logging
> refactored to use the new logging API package, and its distribution
> thoroughly checked for correctness/completeness.  If you'd like to
> volunteer for a module or two, please catch me on IRC and we can work it
> out there.
>
> Thanks,
> Shane
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