Best way to get involved is mail dev@qpid.apache.org and say, "want to help, and state your interests"
Want needs to get done (the short term/ short list)
Theme | Item | component | who |
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Performance |
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| increase fanout performance | c++ |
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| increase per-connection throughput | c++ |
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| Shared memory transport | c++ |
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Broker 'model' |
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| Selectors | c++ |
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| queue policies **1 | c++ |
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| Priorities | c++ |
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| PB exchange | c++ |
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Security |
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| SASL authentication (kerb) | python |
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| SASL authentication (kerb) | java |
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| SASL encryption (kerb) | python |
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| SASL encryption (kerb) | java |
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| SASL encryption (kerb) | .net |
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| SASL encryption & authentication | inter broker links |
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| Tests for federation and clustering with all transport and security options | c++ |
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| SELinux ACL delegation | c++ |
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Clustering |
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| Session resume across | all client |
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| Processing updates to known broker urls | python and ruby |
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| auto detect restart durable stores for cluster | c++ |
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Management |
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| more stats (e.g. avg/min/max queue 'latencies') | c++ |
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| configurable alerts for e.g. hitting preset queue limits | c++ |
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| more flexible logging (more useful to end user) | c++ |
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| QMF agents for missing clients | java, python, .net |
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| QMF console API for | .net |
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| JMX -> QMF bridge | java |
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| qpid-queue-tool | python |
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Builds |
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| c++ on windows (per steve) | c++ |
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| complete solaris | c++ |
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| default IO for other OS's ? | c++ |
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Future Proofing |
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| High level API design work | All client |
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| ABI computability strategy | c++ |
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| .Net test coverage and API review (WCF/QMF) | .net |
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Interop |
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| 0-10 for Java broker | java |
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| Updated IO layer for Java broker | java |
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Miscellaneous |
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| test card iwarp support for RDMA | c++ |
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| ASL licensed RDMS DB store | c++ |
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**1
- allow for killing (slow) consumer, rather than producer – python cmd line tool?
- dequeue when all current browsers have received message (more efficient topic, also represents a step towards 1.0 model)
Target Features/work areas for
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Qpid 0.5
- Kerberos Auth and encryption from all clients – in progress
- A-A Cluster support from all clients
- RT JVM Thread support for Java — done
- DR links for stand-alone and clustered brokers — done
- Producer side flow control — done
- Updated IO layer for Java
- Shared memory transport
- .NET test coverage
- Windows client build from cmd line.
- AMQP-MGMT to WS-DM and JMX bridge committed (QMan) – mostly done
- IP address /Hostname access control to virtualhosts (Java broker)
scratch list of stuff to help with
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