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Re: "... first release candidate is expected in August 2011." Really?

From: Michael Diers <mdiers_at_elegosoft.com>
Date: Tue, 24 May 2011 00:24:31 +0200

On 2011-05-23 20:25, Hyrum K Wright wrote:
> On Mon, May 23, 2011 at 11:05 AM, C. Michael Pilato <cmpilato_at_collab.net>wrote:
[...]
>> I do have a question, though, about a portion of that report:
>>
>> The good news is: after the extensive rewrite of Subversion's working
>> copy library has completed, a release branch will be created within a
>> month, and the first release candidate is expected in August 2011.
>>
>> I didn't get the sense at the hackathon that there were enough documented
>> blocker issues to delay our putting out our first release candidate for
>> another *three months*. Did I miss some critical discussion on Friday?
>> Did
>> I simply misunderstand the discussions we had earlier in the week? Are
>> there some blockers that are living in peoples' minds and *not* in the
>> tracker (aka "poor collaboration and communication")? Was the write-up
>> just
>> a mistake, and August is actually the *release* target date?
>
> I noticed that bit of prose as well, and just chalked it up to
> an overzealous PR guy.

Sorry, it's a mistake alright. The "PR guys" were rushing the PR stuff
on Friday. This bit of incongruous information apparently slipped through.

> The outcome of the hackathon was "we'll start alpha releases in June and
> branch when the blockers are gone"

We'll change that paragraph to read:

  The good news is: after the extensive rewrite of Subversion's working
  copy library has completed, we can expect alpha releases in June,
  to be followed by the creation of a release branch, once the
  remaining release blockers have been resolved.

-- 
Michael Diers, elego Software Solutions GmbH, http://www.elego.de
Received on 2011-05-24 02:36:45 CEST

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