Release Plan for Apache Jakarta-Slide 2.0
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This document is a release plan for a 2.0 release of the Apache Jakarta-Slide project 
(called "Slide" in the rest of this document). 

GENERAL AIM
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Slide 2.0 will provide a stable content repository as a basis for a content
management system / framework and other purposes, featuring:
* Full WebDAV Support
* Basic DeltaV WebDAV Versioning Support / advanced features "merge",
"basline", "activity" and "versioned collection" are postponed to 2.x (x>0).
* Support for a variety of backend systems for storing the content
including different databases and file system storage
* Transactions and Locking for data integrity
* Flexible control over permissions at a per file level via support for
WebDAV ACL
* Simple installation on any server supporting Servlet 2.3 and .war
deployment
* Sample 'ready-to-run' binary distribution including Tomcat 4.1
* A fully featured WebDAV client library and command line client
* DASL support for any backend, extensible for using backends search
capabilities

Release schedule
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- Anything comparable to a beta: 3rd-4th week of Janury 2004
- Anything comparable to a release candidate: 3rd-4th week of February 2004
- Anything comparable to a final release: 1st-2nd week of March 2004