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<header>
<title>Release Plan</title>
<subtitle>Planning Documentation</subtitle>
<authors>
<person name="Carsten Ziegeler" email="cziegeler@apache.org"/>
<person name="David Crossley" email="crossley@apache.org"/>
</authors>
</header>
<body>
<s1 title="Timeframe">
<p>This is the current time frame for the next releases:</p>
<ul>
<li>March/April 2004 : 2.1.5 (maintenance release)</li>
<li>Not schedulded yet : 2.2 Milestone 1</li>
<li>On request : 2.0.5 (maintenance release)</li>
</ul>
</s1>
<s1 title="Version 2.2 Milestone 1">
<p>Although this version might be long in the future, we already have some plans...</p>
<ul>
<li>Design and implement blocks</li>
<li>Move to a new Avalon container implementation (Fortress)</li>
</ul>
<p>The <link href="updating.html">updating to 2.2</link> document contains more information
on how to prepare your application for the next major release.</p>
</s1>
<s1 title="General tasks for a release">
<ul>
<li>We have many open
<link href="http://nagoya.apache.org/bugzilla/buglist.cgi?bug_status=NEW&amp;bug_status=ASSIGNED&amp;bug_status=REOPENED&amp;bugidtype=include&amp;product=Cocoon+2&amp;order=bugs.bug_id">
bugs</link> in bugzilla. These must be reviewed
and then solved (or declared invalid etc).</li>
<li>Documentation updates (this area lacks most).
Documentation must be happening all the time, and not left
until last.</li>
<li>Checking what to backport. We have components in the
latest developer versions, which might find their way into
the bugfix version line (2.0.x).</li>
<li>Ensure that licensing requirements have been met.
update jars.xml, ensure proper banner in *.java header,
verify the current LICENSE* files, ensure that external
components have suitable licensing requirements.</li>
<li>Everything we forgot...</li>
</ul>
</s1>
</body>
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