I agree with Scott. This has been discussed for months. At first we discussed a March release, but then we delayed it until April to get a few more things in.
-Adrian --- On Tue, 4/14/09, Scott Gray <[email protected]> wrote: > From: Scott Gray <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: [VOTE] Create Release Branch 2009.04 > To: [email protected] > Date: Tuesday, April 14, 2009, 5:40 PM > Hi Hans > > Do you have an actual reason for wanting to delay the > branch? Haven't we all known this was coming? In my > mind you would need to justify a delay rather than just > request one. > > Regards > Scott > > HotWax Media > http://www.hotwaxmedia.com > > On 15/04/2009, at 12:15 PM, Hans Bakker wrote: > > > David , to start a vote and give the opportunity to > vote in 6-12 hours > > is rather short.... > > > > I would favor a week delay and release next week, > still april and still > > 9.04 also like sally suggests. > > > > regards, > > Hans > > > > On Tue, 2009-04-14 at 15:14 -0600, David E Jones > wrote: > >> Today is the day we have discussed for a while! A > lot of improvements > >> and fixes have gone in over the last few weeks, > but it is important to > >> remember that the release branch is primarily > time-based and is a > >> "line in the sand" as it were to begin > the effort of stabilizing a > >> specific code base so that end-users who want > stability over features > >> have that option. Some things make it in, and > other things don't make > >> it, and that is true no matter when we draw the > line (but we don't > >> want to delay it forever). What we have in place > it a HUGE improvement > >> over the release4.0 branch, and that is the most > important point to > >> keep in mind. > >> > >> Along with that there is a planned press release > coordinated with the > >> Apache Software Foundation Public Relations > Committee (that's a > >> mouthful! no wonder we use acronyms like: ASF PRC) > for tomorrow > >> morning (Wed 15 April). > >> > >> That said, the target date/time for the release > branch is later > >> tonight (and when I say tonight I mean according > to USA time, just to > >> clarify). To follow the date pattern we have > discussed and make it > >> clearly a date I'm thinking of the actual name > for the branch > >> directory to be "release200904" (and > please feel free to comment on > >> that if you think something else is better). > >> > >> However, that I will only do that IFF we have a > positive vote for the > >> release, hence this message! > >> > >> Please vote: > >> > >> [+1] Create the release branch tonight, April 14th > (it will be April > >> 15th for GMT-0) > >> [+0] Abstain > >> [-1] Do not create the release branch tonight > >> > >> Please remember that everyone is free to (and > encouraged to!) vote, > >> but only the PMC votes are binding. > >> > >> Thanks to everyone who has made this possible with > amazing > >> contributions over the last 2 years, and a > heightened activity in > >> recent weeks and months to make this a spectacular > release. > >> > >> -David > >> > > --Antwebsystems.com: Quality OFBiz services for > competitive rates > >
