Over the last few months the level of interest and activity in Merlin has been growing. In addition I have received several requests for a release of Merlin by people that want to get involved but really need a release before jumping in.
Some of the actions that should be taken before a release include the following:
Action
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Status
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custom contextualization tutorials
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DONE
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add documentation concerning the Merlin/Maven plugin
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DONE
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documentation on configuration/categories targets
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DONE
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provide solution for the a manifest generation problem that
is currently preventing the proper management of
extensions
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DONE
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enable meta-info generation tool to switch between xinfo
and xtype
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DONE
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document the repository and relationship to the classloader
and include resource tags
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DONE
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replace the attribute based lifestyle policy declaration with
a formal <lifestyle> element in the info block
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DONE
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replace the <engine> tag with <classloader>
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DONE
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documetation on logging categories management
(tutorials can come a little later)
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DONE
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Fork Excalibur Extension under the Merlin project.
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DONE
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dynamic components tutorials
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DONE
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complete the documentation about the James example
(this needs to cover the relationships between types, services,
packaged and explicit profiles, blocks, includes, and
targets).
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PENDING
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test and validation
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ONGOING
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tag the CVS
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vote on a release
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