JXTA Community asked to set the roadmap

The JXTA Community is being asked to help set the agenda and time table for the next version of JXTA for Java SE (JXSE). In the forum post JXTA Community - we need your help and feedback for next JXSE releases, Fabrice Di Meglio writes:

You should probably be aware that Sun is looking for increasing the JXTA Community participation since the last Board of Director elections.

In the past weeks, I had some phone talks with Bernard Traversa (JXTA Technical Lead), Mike "Bondolo" Duigou (previous JXSE release lead), Vanessa Williams and Mark Petrovic (newly elected JXTA Board members) about this subject and Sun confirmed that they want to help the JXTA Community decide what to put into a JXTA JXSE release and define its release date.

As you may remember, the current JXTA J2SE version 2.5, named "Turduken" was released in November 2007 which is nearly already one year ago. Moreover, there is currently no real plan defined for the next release.

Fabrice puts forward two main options:

1) Release the current trunk (seed for the 2.5+ release named "Cassoulet") as it is before end of November 2008. This current trunk contains nice improvements compared to 2.5.

2) Wait a bit more (January / February 2009) to get more bug fixes and new features. In that case we will need to define which bugs must be fixed and the features which will be implemented. Completing these tasks will depend upon contributions from the JXTA Community.

This is an inspiring and encouraging bit of outreach, and hopefully the JXTA community will respond to this remarkable opportunity to help set their own schedule and agenda for the next few months.