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1. Finish merging XWork code base (rename packages)
2. Rename Struts 2 packages to org.apache.struts3
3. Use logging layer from Log4j2 or https://code.google.com/p/anodyzed/ (Chris Pratt is willing to donate that project to Struts)
4. Switch to OGNL 4
   1. we must release it first
   2. also we need better API interfaces to allow integrate Struts with other EL engines, ie.: MVEL - right now the whole conversion layer is hardly tied with OGNL
5. Divide core into api and spi
6. prepare ALPHA release

M3 (beta 1 Struts 3)

1. move plugins to separated project
   1. disconnect plugins release cycle from core release

Cleanup website

There should be just one project website - Apache Struts. Right now there is the main website - Apache Struts project, subsite Apache Struts 1 and another subsite Apache Struts 2. After announcing EOL of Struts 1, we basically supporting just one version or rather branch - Apache Struts 2 which should be at some point converted just into Apache Struts (version 2.5, version 3.0, version 3.1, etc.).

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