Continue the 1.10 alphas?

[Julian Foad]

Just asking...

As I understand it, we paused the issuing of 1.10 alpha releases because 
we considered that the final 1.10 release will need to address the SHA1 
collision issue otherwise it won't be considered a viable release.

It seemed reasonable to pause for a bit while the SHA1 issue was worked 
on, and Stefan2 has done some work on that. But currently it seems that 
there is nobody doing any further work on it.

We could continue waiting, or maybe now we should resume the alpha 
testing of the new features (conflict resolution), and let the SHA1 work 
be fixed as and when someone is motivated to do so (before or after 
1.10). It seems to me that sometimes in open source we need to get on 
with doing what we can do, and just trust that someone else will do the 
rest.

Thoughts?

- Julian