Notes for ForrestFriday 12 December 2005

Please try to summarise as we go.

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The topic is to finish locationmap, clean up Jira,
prioritise issues for next release, more xhtml2 dev.

http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/forrest/events/forrest-friday/20051209-log.txt
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Ross threatened to work on enabling Plugins to be used in-place.
This will ease the life of all developers.
Formulate a proposal for the mailing list, helps to galvanise ideas.

> Yes, that is an interesting OSS technique ... writing email not expecting an answer.
FIXME: document that.

http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?t=113412240200003
Re: Plugin development/release cycle

Going through a quite phase at ForrestFriday.

Thorsten mentioned a new "locationmap source factory"

Some work on tidying up Jira, especially the Locationmap-releated issues
FOR-200 and FOR-726.

Further work on JIRA - focusing on moving issues out of the 0.8 development that
don't belong there. Reduced number of issues from 103 to 73 - still got many more
to look through :-(

To coordinate this Iwe have a new issue ;-) See http://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/FOR-758

Fixed some more issues relating to FOR-200 (see Jira and commit messages)

Completed conversion of all core plugins to locationmap. It is proposed that 
whiteboard plugins are not blockers to 0.8, although they should not be allowed to
move out of whiteboard until they are using the locationmap. Mail sent to the dev list
about this.

Plugins can now provide default property files (see notes on FOR-739)