On 3/17/2011 3:40 PM, William A. Rowe Jr. wrote: > On 3/17/2011 1:31 PM, Jim Jagielski wrote: >> >> My plan is to have another beta the end of March, another >> in April and GA in May (at the latest)... > > Well, if we presume that people will invent and collaborate to refine > some "cool stuff" at Wicklow, it isn't unreasonable to guess that such > a tarball would still be beta and need several weeks of a "large group" > of final testers and some bug fixes to be realistically be "the best > available version" and more robust than 2.2.17 in June. I will vote > against declaring 'ga' any taraball which can't meet that self-described > label that we've assign to every general release for over a dozen years :)
Which was to say, if there are no changes in May that could reasonably be expected to cause a regression, then the May candidate might be suited to be GA, but might be better described as /final beta/. We would have the best sense of this during the Wicklow hackathon/weekend.
