Hello EasyBuilders, Below is the schedule for the EasyBuild v1.4.0 release in the next couple of days.
After a couple of releases in which we tried to follow a "code freeze" release schedule, we have decided to switch to a "feature freeze" schedule. We noticed that having a deadline in which pull requests have to be merged in order to get them included in a release (i.e., a "code freeze") doesn't work out well, so we want to evaluate a "feature freeze" mechanism instead, i.e., a deadline for pull requests to be open in order to make them eligible for inclusion in the next release. * Thu. April 25th 2013 9am: EasyBuild v1.4 feature freeze Next Thursday morning, all open pull requests will be evaluated for inclusion in EasyBuild version 1.4. Pull requests that are not mature enough will be tagged for inclusion in v1.5 instead. All non-bugfix pull requests that are issued after this deadline will have to wait until v1.5 (end of May). * May 2nd 2013: EasyBuild v1.4.0 release The planned release date for EasyBuild v1.4.0 is May 2nd 2013. In between the feature freeze and the planned release date, we will: * review and test all open pull requests tagged for v1.4 and get them merged * make sure a full regression test passes (roughly 1000 software builds by now) An overview of the release planning is available at https://github.com/hpcugent/easybuild/wiki/Release-schedule. regards, Kenneth
