A Wicket Diary

Again another snapshot release for Wicket 1.2 is available for your
pleasure. I hope we will be able to finalize things soon and things
are looking good.

Thanks for your patience and support!

Dear Wicket community,

After a couple of months without any significant problem the Wicket team has made available the first maintenance release of Wicket 1.1. This release features a backport of a Wicket 1.2 feature: the tag, which enables you to create internationalized pages without having to resort to adding Label components with StringResourceModel for internationalizing the texts on a page. See the WicketMessageResolver JavaDoc for more information.

Further enhancements include:

• Added check and better exception when servlet’s init param is missing
• Added label tags for generated input tags in CheckBoxMultipleChoice and RadioChoice
• Fixed autolink NPE problem
• Fixed bug in button that caused the value attirbute to disappear after form submit

Together with this release, the Wicket extensions, examples and quickstart projects receive a maintance release and are also released as 1.1.1.

This release is available through the download pages on SourceForge.

Enjoy this release!

Apparently complaining at their support site about non-working CVS access helps. I just checked out Wicket from anon CVS and it worked. Not as fast as developer CVS through SSH, but they do listen.

Now next time you have problems with anonymous CVS access, just file a bug report. They might even solve the problem.

I’m a big fan of SourceForge as it makes collaborative development for open source projects work. It may not have the best bug tracker, forum software etc, but considering the scale of the site, I am awed by their efforts.

The only real problem I have with SourceForge it the anonymous CVS. Apparently it rarely works (as a committer you get SSH access, which almost always works), considering the number of complaints on our mailinglists. This has raised the question of whether we should stay at SourceForge or move to another open source portal.

I rarely see support tickets on the SourceForge support trackers regarding anonymous CVS. Is the Sourceforge support staff even aware that there is a problem?

I’ve uploaded a new development release of our Wicket 1.2 efforts on the Sourceforge.net download site.

Please help test this release, to make this the best Wicket ever (until the next version comes out).