$Id: RELEASE-PLAN,v 1.1 2003/04/25 17:50:55 tobrien Exp $

Jakarta Commons Codec  

*** Release Plan

This document outline the current goals for the next release.  
This document defines objectives and action items that should
be met before the next release.  Longer term goals should be
placed in the file named ROADMAP.  

Objective: 

   The main objective of 1.1 release is to package a definitive
   implementation of Base64 and Hex in addition to the phonetic
   encoders currently implemented in the "language" package. It
   is the objective of the [codec] project to provide a point
   of consolidation for [binary|text|language] codecs.

   The 1.1 release will be a foundation for further expansion
   of the available binary encoders and decoders, but it should
   be noted that the objective is to provide an implementation
   of Base64 and Hex - byte[] and IO stream.

Status:

* As described in the TODO

Codec 1.1 Release Candidate`1:

* Code freeze date: Apr 1, 2003
* Tag date: Apr 8, 2003
* Goals:
    * Cut a release which can be used to as the base for performing
      tests and reporting bugs. 
    * Evaluate and clean up as many bugs that are there
      jakarta.apache.org/bugs.

Codec 1.1 Final (Tentative):

* Code freeze date: Apr 15, 2003
* Tag date: Apr 20, 2003
* Goals:
    * Fix bugs reported on the beta and subsequent builds. 
    * Evaluate after the code freeze date if codec 1.1 is ready to be
      called "final".
    * Build out documentation using Forrest

* Release Manager: Tim O'Brien <tobrien@apache.org>