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Date: Tue, 29 Sep 2009 12:16:38 +0200
From: Carsten Ziegeler <cziegeler@apache.org>
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Subject: Re: Releasing serializers block
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Reinhard P�tz wrote:
> Carsten Ziegeler wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I would like to release the 2.2 version of the serializers block
>> (consisting of two modules).
>>
>> Is anything preventing us from releasing this?
> 
> No I don't think so. After rereading the original thread about this
> block (see http://cocoon.markmail.org/message/z63kh2sx3u4spxo7) I just
> wonder if the mentioned Xalan bugs haven't been fixed in the meantime.
Yes, maybe - but as the last release is very old, I would not count on that.

> The second question that came to mind was whether we should make the
> serializers-charset module an OSGi bundle. And we should change the
> namespace to org.apache.cocoon.serializers.* for both modules.
+1 for OSGi, I'll do that
I'm not sure for the packages as this might be incompatible to 2.1.x?

>> What's the procedure to release the block?
> 
> http://cocoon.apache.org/1199_1_1.html describes the technical details.
> You should be able to use
> http://repo1.maven.org/maven2/org/apache/cocoon/cocoon/8/cocoon-8.pom as
> parent POM (but I'm not sure about this because usually we use the
> cocoon-blocks-modules as parent POM).
Ah ok, thanks!

> We also need to test that the serializers-impl Avalon sitemap components
> work with Cocoon 2.2 or even better, migrate them to Spring (but I don't
> consider the migration being absolutely necessary).
Yes, that would be great :) I think I tested this a long time ago...but
hopefully I'll be able to do that again

> 
> After releasing it I can help out with updating the documentation -
> maybe you can add a few paragraphs to
> http://cocoon.zones.apache.org/daisy/cdocs/g1/g3/g5/1252.html.
Cool, thanks!

Carsten


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