[ecf-dev] 0.9.3 release imminent -- please review

[Scott Lewis <slewis@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Folks,

This round of refactoring ECF is nearly completed, and it's about time 
to get 0.9.3 stable out.  The refactoring a worthy improvement as the 
core bundles are smaller, better able to run on a variety of execution 
environments, simpler, with more consistent and clearer naming 
conventions, and with much more documentation.  Here is the API 
refactoring plan that was used to start this:

http://wiki.eclipse.org/index.php/API_Refactoring

This is a backward-compatibility-breaking release, however, as there are 
major API changes that will require package and class renames in client 
code.  I expect this will be the last time this happens until 2.0 for 
the core APIs.  There *will* be the addition of the bbapi, and major 
changes/additions to the call API, but I'm hoping to keep the identity, 
core, datashare, filetransfer, presence, sharedobject, and remoteservice 
APIs stable as much as possible to concentrate on apps, UI, and provider 
implementations.  Further, servers based upon old code will not 
interoperate with new clients, and vice versa, so we will be updating 
the ecftcp://ecf.eclipse.org:3282/server shortly after 0.9.3 is out.

Please review things and provide bug reports and/or further enhancement 
requests.  All of this work is leading to the point where we and others 
can begin new application-level efforts and depend upon stable but 
sufficiently rich communications APIs, yet be able to extend the APIs in 
appropriate and necessary ways.

Please review, comment on things publicly (here and/or ecf-dev) and 
report bugs or enhancement requests to:

https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/buglist.cgi?query_format=specific&order=relevance+desc&bug_status=__open__&product=ECF&content=

A draft new and noteworthy detailing many of the refactoring changes can 
be found here:

http://www.eclipse.org/ecf/NewAndNoteworthy_0.9.3.html

Note this is a draft and I'm working on it right now (11/10/2006) so 
please let me know about omissions, errors, desired changes and I will 
correct.

The latest source can be accessed here via project set files:

http://www.eclipse.org/ecf/dev_resources.php

The new javadocs can be found here:

http://www.eclipse.org/ecf/org.eclipse.ecf.docs/api/

Please let me know directly if you find any problems with accessing the 
above resources.

Thanksinadvance,

Scott