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From: "Glen Daniels" <gdaniels@macromedia.com>
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Subject: Re: To-do list / project status
Date: Thu, 17 May 2001 15:28:37 -0400
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+1

I'm on it.

--G

----- Original Message -----
From: "Doug Davis" <dug@us.ibm.com>
To: <axis-dev@xml.apache.org>
Sent: Thursday, May 17, 2001 2:13 PM
Subject: Re: To-do list / project status


> It might be nice to either relate or merge this with the requirements list
> that's in the cvs tree since they're related info.
> -Dug
>
>
> Glen Daniels <gdaniels@macromedia.com> on 05/17/2001 12:42:50 PM
>
> Please respond to axis-dev@xml.apache.org
>
> To:   "'axis-dev@xml.apache.org'" <axis-dev@xml.apache.org>
> cc:
> Subject:  To-do list / project status
>
>
>
>
> Please check out http://xml.apache.org/~gdaniels/todo.html - this is a
> start
> at an Axis 1.0 to-do list, which needs edits and fleshing out.  I'd like
to
> get each of these areas a) owned by someone, b) written up in a bit more
> detail, and c) moving towards completion, ideally with a rough guess at
> scheduling.  Ideally this turns into a feature-list, each of which has an
> owner, a status (in proc, code complete, unit tested, integrated), and
some
> documentation.
>
> Is there stuff that should be on here that isn't (a: yes)?  Is what's here
> correct?  Do you want to take one of these items as yours?
>
> From a broader perspective, it's now mid-May, and we were hoping to have a
> 1.0 release ready by July.  If we don't start picking up some serious
> momentum, it's not going to happen.
>
> I think this is a really cool project, and if we do a good job and get it
> out in a reasonable timeframe, we will be able to say sometime next year
> that we built a full-featured, fast, embeddable SOAP engine that's
powering
> tons of production applications, including being embedded in several major
> J2EE application servers!  I want to get there; do you?
>
> We need to start working like a team on a real project, instead of a bunch
> of individuals hacking away.  How can we do that?  Any advice you can
offer
> would be appreciated.  Some suggestions from my end:
>
> 1) Let's talk more, both here and in real-time.  I'm on #ApacheSOAP on IRC
> right now, and plan to hang out there as much as possible for the next
> month
> or so.  If you want to chat about architecture/design/coding on this
> project, let's make that the place to do it.  We'll log the substantive
> conversations and send them to the list.
>
> 2) Let's organize.  The to-do list is a first step, let's keep it going.
> If
> you're working in a particular area, let the list know what you're doing.
> Toward that end, I'd like to suggest that in addition to keeping a list of
> who "owns" which areas, that we each send out a weekly status report to
the
> axis-dev list, just so that everyone knows what we're up to even if we
> haven't had time to write up a full spec or check in our code.
>
> 3) Let's get moving.  We need closure on some of the open issues.  We need
> people to take ownership of these things, and come up with concrete
> proposals/code for us to use.  It may take an iteration or two to get it
> right, that's OK - but we need to get the rest of this system fleshed out
> and down on paper.  We also need to know our release criteria for 1.0 in a
> bit more detail.
>
> I'm psyched - who's with me?  How much time can you put in?  What areas do
> you want to work on?
>
> Glen Daniels
> Macromedia
> Engineering Manager
> http://www.macromedia.com/
>                                 Building cool stuff for web developers
>
>
>