Zend Framework Code Freeze
Bill Karwin, the Zend Product Engineering Manager, sent out an email last night announcing a code freeze for the next point release of Zend Framework. Below is the full text of the email. Don’t forget, it’s never too late to get involved with the Zend Framework. If you are interested, click here for everything you need to know.
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Hi all,
We are in the final week of development for Zend Framework Preview Release 0.6.0! We are on schedule to call a code-freeze on Friday December 15.
So if you have work to commit, please get it in by Friday 12/15, or else it will have to wait for ZF 0.7 (which is on our schedule for mid-January)!
The code-freeze for 0.6.0 should be lifted by Monday December 18.
There have been a lot of great improvements in the six weeks since the release of 0.2.0.
The new release will include:
- Maturation of the MVC classes and documentation.
- Improvements and architecture changes in Zend_Acl, Zend_Http_Client, Zend_Registry, Zend_Session, Zend_XmlRpc_Client, and Zend_XmlRpc_Server.
- New components like Zend_Auth, Zend_Console_Getopt, and I18N components.
- New query parser for Zend_Search_Lucene.
- Many improvements to other components, tests, documentation, and manual translations.
The new release is looking great and we’ll see it very soon!
Regards,
Bill Karwin
Product Engineering Manager
Zend Technologies
Comments
This all sounds interesting and exciting. I'm certainly looking forward to it.
But, which of the compenents listed are still in the incubator and which ones are not? Does anyone know?
I'm mainly asking so that I can set my expectations. The 0.2.0 release notes described some components that I was looking forward to, only to find that they were still in the incubator. :-| Yes, they were there, but not quite to the point where I felt comfortable using them.
Any feedback would be welcome.
Thanks,
Travis
As of this morning’s checkout these are the packages in the incubator and the library.
Incubator:
Acl, Auth, Cache, Console, Currency
Date, Db, Environment, Form, Gdata
Http, Json, Locale, Mail, Measure
Mime, Registry, Rest, Service, Session
Soap, TimeSync
Library:
Cache, Config, Controller, Db, Feed
Filter, Http, Json, Log, Mail, Mime
Pdf, Request, Search, Server, Service
Uri, View, XmlRpc
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Thanks for that information. I guess I ought to figure out how to find that information. It sounds like it's available for anyone to see.
Now, another question: is it pretty fair to think that those things that are in the incubator now will still be in the incubator come Friday?
Thanks again! :-)
Travis
What you see in the subversion repository and nightly snapshots today is mostly what will be in the 0.6.0 Preview Release. We're working hard to finish up a few components and if we can give them solid test coverage and documentation, they should move out of the incubator and into the core library.
The components that we hope to move out of the incubator are:
- Zend_Acl (currently this is in a branch)
- Zend_Auth
- Zend_Session
- Zend_Gdata
Remember, the Zend Framework is still in a state of Preview Release. Consider this pre-Beta Release; even code in the core library is subject to change with respect to class interfaces before we reach the Beta Release milestone.
See also our Zend Framework Project Management page:
http://framework.zend.com/wiki/x/zic
And my Google Spreadsheet of the current status of all Zend Framework components:
http://spreadsheets.google.com/pub?key=pMy3PL3bQqZqlteLWg43HDg
I keep this up to date as frequently as is practical.
Regards,
Bill Karwin
Thanks for your reply.
Yes...I remember that this is still "preview release". That's one of the reasons I PREFER to draw the line when it comes to the incubator components. ;-)
Thanks for the links....I'll take a look-see when I get a little more time.
Keep up the good work!
Travis