V1 Alpha Release
Apache Beehive is striving to produce an alpha release of our V1 by Apache Conference 2004.
Goals/Non-goals
- Goals
- Practice the release process so we can begin to work out the kinks
- Binary distribution available
- Demoable for conference sessions
- Enough supporting materials (sample applications, feature samples, documentation, tutorials, etc.) to generate interest in Beehive, begin to build a more active user community and get useful feedback on the current feature set.
- Non-goals
- Feature complete
- APIs locked
- Beta-quality
- Guarantee of backwards compat
- User guide is part of the distribution (docs will be on project site for alpha)
Timing Guideline for Rampdown
10/27/2004 – Branch
10/29/2004 – Review doc, sample and tutorial materials for completeness, functionality and accuracy.
10/31/2004 – Known dev and docs/samples/tutorials work that is included in the distribution complete. Checkin test pass. Additional test suites have been run along the way. Folks doing sessions & demos at Apachecon believe the code base is in good shape. Egregious "can't ship without" bugs on alpha quality have been filed.
11/1/2004 – Fix any last minute items.
11/2/2004 – Choose changelist as distribution and begin final test passes
11/8/2004 (latest) – Call official vote on V1 alpha release (choose a revision number as a candidate for the alpha distribution)
11/10/2004 EOD – Close vote
11/11/2004 – Tally votes, send results, roll and sign distribution, send announcement emails to Apache lists
Punchlist of Work
- ApacheConPunchList: General
- DocDetails: Details on Doc/Sample/Tutorial expectations