----- Original Message ----- From: "Steve Loughran" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > > > Here is the tentative timeline that I propose: > > > > April 13: Complete gathering votes for move-towards-release > > proposal. > > > > If proposal passes, > > > > Till April 30: Complete planned activities (based on to-do list) > > on Ant 1.5Alpha > > May 1st Week : Release Ant 1.5Beta1 > > Rest of May : *Bug* fixes to Ant 1.5Alpha, if any. Oops... that should have read Ant1.5Beta1 > > June 1st Week: Release Ant 1.5Beta2, followed by *bug* fixes, if any. > > June 4th Week: Vote on Ant 1.5 Release. > > July 1st Week: Release Ant 1.5 > > And 1.5.1 in, say August. Optimistically, there will be no 1.5.1 ;-) > > What you have proposed is nearly a 3 month beta cycle for ant. Just May and June. > That is kind of long. maybe it is a good length, maybe a bad one. Were we to get back to > 6 month release cycles we would be in beta release mode more than 50% of the > time unless we compressed the release schedule again. > The timeline I proposed is partially also based on the amount of time I will be able to devote for making the release. I will not be able to commit myself to a shorter timeline for this release. > > > > Anyway, send in your votes for: > > > > 1. Proposal to move towards releasing Ant 1.5 (+1) > > +1 > > > 2. Proposed timeline (+1) > > +1 > > I dont have any objections to the timeline per se, but worry if it is > setting long term expectations about beta cycle durations. I understand your point of view, but don't you think an extended beta is better than an extended alpha? ;-) > > One q: when are we feature frozen? April 30? > Yes, on the Ant_15_Beta1 branch. However, feature additions can be done to Ant_16_Alpha. But they will not make it into the Ant 1.5 release. There may be a few exceptions to this depending upon the severity of any feature additions. But I would strongly discourage that. > > 3. Magesh as Proposed Release Manager (+0) (+1, if no other > > committer volunteers). > > +1 > > Cheers, Magesh **************************************************** * Doctor: A person who kills your ills by pills, * * and then kills you with his bills. * **************************************************** -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
