SM3... getting ready for an alpha release

[Joe Walnes]

Over the past few days, I've fixed the only remaining critical bug (that I know of). From here on, it's just adding features, and documentation.

I'm looking for some volunteers to try SM3 on real applications. Any takers?

cheers

-Joe

[Richard Vowles]

I have some pretty gnarly GWT/Oophm stuff I have to complete, but I'll try making a port to Grails after that.

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[d...@bodar.com]

Okay well I've updated html2blog to use v3.

Not quite sure what to do with webfabric, Joe would you prefer if I
just dropped SiteMesh 2 support to force people to upgrade to 3?
I was thinking about supporting both as I'm still planning to support
the .net version at some point.

[Patrick Lightbody]

I could give it a shot on browsermob.com.

[Joe Walnes]

I've added the next batch of remaining work to the GitHub issue tracker (which is primitive, but does the job)

Please take a look and see if there's anything you can help with. Be a part of the most anticipated software release of the decade! :)

http://github.com/sitemesh/sitemesh3/issues

[Joe Walnes]

Update: 

- All known critical bugs fixed

- Offline generation features /nearly/ complete. Got a nice command line tool (java -jar sitemesh.jar) and the basics of an Ant <sitemesh> task.

- Docs are getting better.

Things blocking the release:

- Need a nice distribution bundle (translation: fighting with Maven)

- Document the offline generator

- Build a half usable website

- Craft an announcement email

[Patrick Lightbody]

Joe,
Let me know if you need help beating up Maven, I've been in a few
battles myself.

Patrick

[Richard L. Burton III]

Pat, we know you're warrior! If I were to ever create a gang with techie people, you'll be one of the first I hand a gun to :)

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[Joe Walnes]

Pat, please help!

What I want is:

1. A way to package up a single end user distribution .tgz/.zip, that contains all source, prebuilt jars/wars, examples, docs, javadoc, build files, dependencies, etc. 

I gave up trying to figure out how to get Maven to do this and just created a shell script: http://github.com/sitemesh/sitemesh3/blob/615ba892b47a2e3a7d669707a88c5f0b3e5ef22b/package.sh

Can you turn this into something real? Apparently the Maven Assembly plugin helps with this, but I couldn't figure it out.

2. A way to automate the release. Apparently the Maven Release plugin can take care of updating the version numbers in the poms, tagging the Git repo and uploading. 

cheers

-Joe

[Daniel Worthington-Bodart]

Hey Joe, have you got a CI server setup already? if not I already have one setup for SM3 if you need

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[Joe Walnes]

Yes please! I've asked 4 people so far and they all say the can do it, but noone's managed it :)

GitHub supports web hooks, so I can get it to ping your server upon each checkin if that makes things easier?

Details:

 scm: git://github.com/sitemesh/sitemesh3.git

 build command: mvn package

 nag address: siteme...@googlegroups.com (let me know the email it will be coming from so I can whitelist it on the group)

[Joe Walnes]

* The code is in good shape.

* Website is and a first crack at docs are up: http://www.sitemesh.org/

* Releases are available: http://github.com/sitemesh/sitemesh3/downloads

I'm going out to get some dinner, then I'll send release announcement. 

SiteMesh 3 (alpha 1) is GO!

-Joe

[Joe Walnes]

It's done.

http://www.sitemesh.org/

Blogged at http://joewalnes.com/

It's also now in the central Maven repository (if that excites you):

  <dependency>

      <groupId>org.sitemesh</groupId>

      <artifactId>sitemesh</artifactId>

      <version>3.0-alpha1</version>

  </dependency>