Okay, plan for 0.19 release

Things standing in the way of the release:

   - The server sends UUIDs, but older clients can't handle them.

   - Mike's mystery bug, stimulated by rev 5202 though probably not
     caused by it.

   - (optional) Make the client not error on unknown props, just
     silently ignore them instead, to make future extension easier.

(No, the third item doesn't really "block" the release, it's just
something nice to get into this tarball, so we can avoid this problem
coming up again. When Neon gets NE_XML_IGNORE support, we can switch
the code to use that, it's a truly trivial change.)

So, for 0.19:

   1. In trunk, put in the prop relaxation (using NE_XML_VALID). This
      is trivial. Ben is doing it right now.

   2. Make the release branch, and on that branch, revert revision
      5202, and apply MBK's server-side change to not send UUIDs.

Michael, how about you make the release branch once you see the xml
change go in, then Ben and I will commit the branch-specific changes,
and test the branch against itself and against a 0.18.1 client (while
you're doing the other release administrative work). Mmm,
parallelization :-). Sound okay?

Reverting rev 5202 from the release branch is a nod to conservatism.
We don't know much about this bug, but we can guess that it's more
likely to show up with 5202 present than not. Reverting it does
remove one of the planned scalability bugfixes from the tarball, but
that's not a big deal, since the change is staying in trunk and will
automatically be in the next release (i.e., we don't need to reopen
the issue, so instead we can concentrate on the *real* bug).

-Karl

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