[seam-dev] Seam 3.0.0 Beta 1

[Shane Bryzak]

I hope everyone had a restful end of year break.  Now that we're into 
the new year I'd like to make it a top priority to prepare a beta 
release for Seam 3.  To do this, we're first going to need at least a 
beta release for every single Seam module - the good news though for 
module leads, is if your module is already at Beta1 or higher, you don't 
need to do anything ;-)

What I'd like to do is start off with a simple status check from each of 
the module leads for each of the modules that are still in alpha.  To 
the best of my knowledge this includes the following modules:

Seam Catch (Alpha3)
Seam International (Alpha 3)
Seam JMS (Alpha 1)
Seam REST (Alpha 2)
Seam Security (Alpha2)
Seam Servlet (Alpha 2)

If your module is in the above list, can you please describe what is 
still required to be done to get your module to a beta release, and 
roughly how long you think it will take.  I'll start with the security 
module:

Currently the security module is in good shape, however I'm expecting to 
make some further changes to the authenticator API to allow better 
integration between the external authentication module and the core 
security beans, such as Identity.  I estimate that this work will take 
approximately 2 weeks (so should be roughly completed by the 18th of 
Jan) after which I'll release beta 1.

Once we have an update from all module leads then we can start setting 
target release dates.  Ideally I would like to get the beta released 
before the end of this month, ideally around the 21st.

Thanks,
Shane