Orc Release 2.0#
Release Objectives#
- Don't regress from Orc 1.2 functions (non-experimental)
- Greatly improve ease of adopting of Orc ("out of box experience")
- Enhanced documentation
- Revised User Guide
- New Reference Manual
- Usable error messages, backed with help
- Re-organized examples
- Enhanced documentation
- Better external tool integration
- Better OIL XML (with published schema)
- More easily extended implementation
- Usable via standard Java Scripting (JSR 223)
interface
- Better maintainability of implementation
- Complete re-design
- More regression testing (particularly negative tests)
- Re-organized test data
- High-grade Web services implementation
- Major new language features
- Records
- Clarified syntax
Deliverables#
- OrcScala distribution (orc-2.0.0.zip)
- OrcSites distribution (orc-sites-2.0.0.zip)
- Orchard distribution (orchard-2.0.0.zip)
- OrcEclipse plug-in JARs (on update site)
- Orc 2.0 User Guide and Orc 2.0 Reference Manual
- Updated Orc Web site
- Orc 2.0 Release Notes
Work Plan#
- Intensive work from now until end December
- Release candidate by 31 Dec
- Released by 17 Jan
Team Plan#
| Team member | Dates away |
|---|---|
| David | 22 Dec-02 Jan |
| J^T | 01 Jan-09 Jan |
| Amin | None |
| Brian | 23-26 Dec ?4-6 Jan? |
| Blake | 15 Dec-Jan |
Meetings and Reviews#
- Kickoff -- 06 Dec
- Stand-up -- Bi-daily?
- Status review -- Weekly, Wed 15:30
Communications Outputs#
- Release announcement on Orc wiki and Orc-lang mail list
Schedule#
Major (i.e. a week or two in duration) activities. Smaller tasks are listed at OrcScalaToDo. Bugs are listed at OrcScalaProblemReports.| Task | Start date | Finish date | People |
|---|---|---|---|
| Finish type checker | 06 Dec | 14 Dec | David |
| Web Services Demos | 16 Dec | 7 Jan | Blake |
| Finish first pass of reference manual content | 06 Dec | ? | Brian and Amin |
| Update DocMaker appendix generation | 15 Dec | ? | David |
| Work.... | ? | ? | |
| Work.... | ? | ? | |
| Release candidate complete (milestone) | 31 Dec 2010 | ||
| Test OrcScala, OrcSites, Orchard, and OrcEclipse plug-in extensively | 01 Jan 2011 | 17 Jan 2011 | |
| Orc 2.0 released (milestone) | 17 Jan 2011 |
Quality Plan#
Walk-Throughs#
Walk-throughs are handled informally among the team members. No formal reporting results.
Testing#
All team members changing the codebase must run the JUnit test suite before committing changes to SVN. TODO: What OrcSites, Orchard, and OrcEclipse testing should be run? TODO: Details of qualification testing between 31 Dec and 17 Jan?
Problem Reporting and Corrective Action#
Record problems on the OrcScalaProblemReports page.
Standards, Practices, and Conventions#
- All text files should have a comment header, similar to the source header found on our existing text files.
- Before committing, rebuild OrcScala, OrcSites, Orchard and OrcEclipse projects to check for broken dependencies.
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