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Date: Fri, 16 Apr 2010 16:32:21 +0100 (BST)
From: David Caruana <david.caruana@alfresco.com>
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Subject: F2F high-level summary
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As you're probably aware, an Apache Chemistry F2F was held this week in Mun=
ich with the aim of merging the two code bases of Chemistry and OpenCMIS.

The attendees of this meeting were Jens H=C3=BCbel, Florian M=C3=BCller, Fl=
orent Guillaume, Nick Burch (mentor), Stephan Klevenz, Paul Goetz, Thierry =
Delprat and David Caruana. To ensure decisions were not made in isolation, =
details of discussions and outcomes were posted to the chemistry-dev mailin=
g list throughout the week.

Here we will summarise the outcome. For details, see the mails posted this =
week.

The good news: there will be one Apache Chemistry Java code base.

As proposed by Florent, we started with the OpenCMIS code base and improved=
 upon it by merging elements of Chemistry into it. This has resulted in sev=
eral refactorings of the OpenCMIS code base, which has reduced the number o=
f classes considerably, as well as clarified the client api. The current ou=
tput of this work can be found at http://svn.apache.org/viewvc/incubator/ch=
emistry/opencmis/trunk/.

There is still further work to do on this branch to complete the merge (as =
resprented by JIRA tasks CMIS-193 to CMIS-199) which will take place over t=
he next couple of weeks. After completing these tasks and ensuring all is s=
table, this branch will be considered the formal trunk that all of the comm=
unity can start using.

What's going to happen to the current Java code base? As there are still so=
me clients and server implementations relying on this code, it will be move=
d to a branch and deprecated. The aim is to re-host these implementations o=
n the /chemistry/opencmis/trunk/ code line after it's stabilized. At this p=
oint, it would seem good timing to provide the first formal incubator relea=
se of Apache Chemistry OpenCMIS subproject. This will also require writing =
new documentation and for the Apache Chemistry web site content to be updat=
ed.

There was also discussion on how to structure the various subprojects of Ap=
ache Chemistry. You may notice that OpenCMIS has moved directly under /chem=
istry in svn. A suggestion is to move all other subprojects (e.g. cmislib, =
jsclient, abderaclient, tck, shell etc) to /chemistry so they can support t=
heir own development and release cycles.=20

Hopefully that reflects things accurately, that's all for now