[Cosmo-dev] "Hibernation" - Integrating Hibernate into Cosmo

[Ted Leung]

Hi folks,

We need to make a decision about whether or not  we are going to go  
ahead an integrate Hibernate before we release a build of Cosmo  
labeled 0.5.  Brian's current estimate of the delay introduced by  
integrating Hibernate is 3 weeks.  That means that Cosmo 0.5 will be  
3 weeks later than originally planned.    Keep in mind that we will  
need to integrate Hibernate well before Beta in order to support some  
of the needs of the hosted service.

As far as I can tell here are the set of people who would be impacted  
and how

Sheila/Priscilla: the end-user facing functionality scheduled for 0.5  
will be 3 weeks later than anticipated.
BCM - is doing  the hibernate work.
Bobby - will have to do work twice if we delay integration of hibernate.
Matthew - maybe blocked by hibernate integration, but Bobby can work  
with him to stub out some data so that he is not blocked.
Jared - wants to see hibernate in the trunk by end of October.
Mikael - we'd like Mikael to do a full test of the integrated  
hibernate and then he'll need to test again when the 0.5 features are  
completed.
Bear - will possibly be doing some additional builds.

Most of what I've been seeing and hearing has been in favor of going  
ahead and integrating Hibernate now, but I want to make sure that  
everyone who will be impacted gets a chance to speak up.   Please  
respond to this message if you have concerns about extending 0.5 by 3  
weeks in order to integrate Hibernate.   If you are in favor, you are  
of course welcome to reply as well.

Ted