On Fri, Jun 3, 2011 at 2:54 AM, Stefan Fuhrmann <eqfox_at_web.de> wrote:
> On 03.06.2011 04:16, Hyrum K Wright wrote:
>>
>> On Wed, May 18, 2011 at 5:17 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.
>>
>> Update: the circus surrounding the 1.6.17 release has pushed this
>> timeline back just a bit. As the buildbots are all currently green, I
>> plan to use r1130886 as the magic rev for 1.7.0-alpha1 and roll and
>> post the tarballs tomorrow morning (CDT).
>
> Thumbs up!
>
> It just occurred to me that the alpha should come
> with a big "1.7 APIs and UI are not final" warning.
That will be one of *many* warnings issued with these pre-releases. :)
-Hyrum
Received on 2011-06-03 18:15:44 CEST