Re: First 1.7.0 prerelease: June 1

On Wed, May 18, 2011 at 6:17 AM, Hyrum K Wright <hyrum_at_hyrumwright.org> wrote:
> Fire up your testing environments: they're going to get some use over
> the next couple of months.
>
> In an effort to release early and often, I'd like to cut the first
> 1.7.0 pre-release on June 1.  This will likely be a beta release,
> since there are still blocking issues, but I hope to get this into the
> hands of users (and third-party consumers) soon-ish.
>
> From that point, we'll continue to release beta's until we branch,
> which will be when the "1.7.0" issues are all closed.  After the
> branch, we'll start the release candidates and the soak period.

I am +1 on doing pre-release build(s) if you want to, but if this is
the group statement coming out of Berlin this is pretty weak. You
have more SVN contributors in the room then there are open issues. It
seems like we ought to be able to make a statement with a good degree
of confidence on when we will branch for the release and issue the
release candidate. If nothing else, we should be seeing a flood of
new issues being added to the milestone. If the people in the room
cannot identify the reasons to not do the release .. and put them in
the issue tracker. Then what is blocking us? Why can't the remaining
issues all be closed by June 1?

I realize the way you worded this statement leaves that open as a
possibility, but with single digit open issues we ought to be able to
make a stronger statement as to when we *think* we will be ready for
release candidate.

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Thanks
Mark Phippard
http://markphip.blogspot.com/