I'm done merging MRM-980 branch to trunk, will just do some testing
first to make sure nothing was broken in trunk after the merge. Then
I'll release an alpha on Saturday.

-Deng

On Sat, Sep 25, 2010 at 12:13 PM, Deng Ching <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 15, 2010 at 2:27 PM, Brett Porter <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>> On 15/09/2010, at 2:05 PM, Deng Ching wrote:
>>
>>> Hi All,
>>>
>>> Any objections in doing a milestone release of trunk before we merge
>>> MRM-980 branch?
>>
>> Depends on the intent...
>>
>> Clearly there are a lot of good improvements in trunk already, both in terms 
>> of performance / bugs and a couple of new features like the arbitrary 
>> metadata.
>>
>> However, if MRM-980 is done and just needs to be merged, I don't see any 
>> reason to wait unless we don't feel it's up to the same level of quality as 
>> the rest of trunk. Is that the case?
>
> Yes, I think we can already merge it. As for the UI for MRM-980, there
> is still a lot of room for improvement but this can be worked on in
> trunk after the merge.
>
>>
>> As for trunk, while the refactoring work is production ready, the file store 
>> is not. It's not far from being ready, and I know leaving trunk 
>> "unreleasable" was less than ideal. I don't mind it being in a release, but 
>> I'd only commit to make an upgrade path from 1.[1|2|3] -> 1.4, not through 
>> the interim releases. In other words, if we release it as is, they need to 
>> be prepared to rescan their repository regularly. I think such a release 
>> would be an alpha, not a milestone, despite our previous naming conventions.
>
> I agree, the release should be an alpha release instead of a milestone.
>
>>
>> So, the question is who the audience / intent is - do we want people to kick 
>> the tires on the refactoring, find bugs, and release an alpha now? Do we 
>> want people to try out the new features and release an alpha/milestone with 
>> that? Or do we really just want to push to what's needed for a release?
>
> The last one I would think.
>
>>
>> I think I'm fine with either an alpha release now (as long as another one 
>> follows quickly), or one with the branch merged in now. Either way, we 
>> should push forward to get 1.4 wrapped up in October.
>
> I vote for the latter -- merge first then do an alpha release after.
>
>
> Thanks,
> Deng
>

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