I think we will see a flurry of bug reports over the holidays, and this will probably necessitate another beta in Jan. FYI.
On Wednesday, December 16, 2009, Warren Togami <[email protected]> wrote: > On 12/16/2009 12:39 AM, Daryl C. W. O'Shea wrote: > > On 16/12/2009 12:18 AM, Warren Togami wrote: > > This is a reminder of the goal to cut another pre-release December 17th > either named beta2 or rc1 depending on the above conditions. It is not > a big deal if we need to delay the cut to the proposed deadline of > December 23rd. > > > What is the proposed deadline of December 23rd proposing a deadline for? > Is that when you propose a general availability release? I would, as > we have in the past, be apprehensive about releasing before a major long > and drawn-out holiday. If a flaw is discovered in the release and it > needs to be fixed and a new release cut ASAP (lots of people make a > stink about having to revert or can't figure out how) I'd rather that > all happen when a whole bunch of people aren't unreachable due to family > members thinking that they're more important than spam filtering. I > would propose that a GA release not happen before January 2nd. > > > Proposed deadline of December 17th or 23rd to get the next pre-release cut > and proposed for voting. Reading the guidelines on the Wiki and build/README > it seems anybody can cut a pre-release at any time, and release can be > rejected by "lazy consensus" meaning no objections. > > This is a pre-release, likely the last pre-release before 3.3.0 final. I do > believe the proposed GA should happen after January 2nd. > > > > Other than a "lets get it out" attitude, which I do encourage, are we > trying to meet any other (distro?) deadlines? > > > > No distro deadline that I am aware of. > > Warren > > -- --j.
