0.8.5
Planned release: None
0.9
- Distributed actors (Alex)
- Rename and move the project to Codehaus (Vaclav)
- Repackage, rename factory classes (Dierk)
- Old Dataflow concurrency enhancements, renaming? (Dierk)
- New DataFlow constructs, operator (Russel)
- Build automation improvements with Gradle (Vaclav)
- Provide separate samples, doc and src downloads
- Documentation on the main concepts. What is our understanding of (Dierk)
- actors
- Update for actor-based printing, create a Printer actor
- dataflow (stream, operator)
- Safe
- glossary with a paragraph per concept, maybe even as small as a link to an external definition.
- Which Java concepts do we work with (pools, executors, ...)
- Common conventions: << for "bind", ...
- New logo contest (Paul)
- Refactored and tuned actors (Vaclav)
- Unified pooled and thread actors (Vaclav)
- Bugfixing
Planned release: Fall 2009
0.10
- System messages, failover
- Further actor improvements
Backlog
- Actor-based metaClass?
- Leverage Groovy dynamic dispatch to make actor use more natural
- CSP
- Performance optimization
- Timeout handling enhancements
Release plan
Since we're exploring quite an unknown territory here and still live in the 0.x era we will make our release cycle pretty short (estimated about max 2 months each), preferably a minor release after each completed major addition. We'll only make bugfix releases in case there's a considerable number of bugs that need to get fixed. This policy is likely to change once we reach the 1.0 era.
