Hi All,

While we working through release semantics on the 0.2-incubating-snapshot 
branch, the trunk moved quite significantly. Great job from every one in 
marching ahead. I think we are in a good position for an immediate 
0.3-incubating release. Any thoughts or objections to this plan?

I see the following feature additions since 0.2 is branched in december:

* Grid submissions to supercomputers are now working for basic applications. 
* Registry and workflow launching now have cool API's so web interfaces can be 
built against.
* User interface have been improved but this looks like work in progress.
* Workflows now have For-Each iterative support, looks like there are open 
tickets on this issues, but workable within this week.
* Registry is now persisting state information from workflow launches and 
progress
* Workflows have provenance aware capabilities so the execution begins from the 
mid workflow where data is available. 

Please add/modify to the list, but I see these are significant improvements 
mandating a release. I propose the following release preparation for 0.3:
* Since there are enough features already call a feature freeze immediately.
* Wrap up any changes to these features, test document and make a code freeze 
by Friday 02/10
* Make a release over next weekend. 

This plan assumes the current voting 0.2 release goes through. If we find 
blockers in 0.2, I still suggest to stick to 0.3 release plan, branch it and 
let the trunk move forward. I am getting bothered with trunk advancing too much 
without a release. 

Thoughts?

Cheers,
Suresh

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