Hello adopters, and committers,

Last week I put a proposal on the Matterhorn development which met with
no opposition, and has therefore been adopted.  This proposal was to
delay the release of Mattehorn 1.4 for the immediate future.  At present
we are faced with a lack of development time and resources, as well as a
nearly complete lack of QA testing.

Please keep in mind that this is just a delay!  1.4 will be released at
some point, but not in the immediate future like we had hoped.  I would
like to especially thank the following for their extensive (10+ commits)
contributions between the end of 1.3's release cycle and now:

Tobian Wunden
Markus Moorman
Christoph Driessen
Adam McKenzie
Denis Meyer

Note that lots of these folks are also senior committers, and may be
committing work from other developers who do not have commit rights yet.

I am sure this will be unpopular, but I felt it better than repeatedly
slipping release dates and our committers agreed.  If you plan to deploy
Matterhorn in the near future (eg: September) then I would encourage you
to test with 1.3.x.  1.3.0 has a bug in it right now that was fixed in
1.3.x, a proposal for 1.3.1 with minimal bug fixes is being discussed at
the developers meeting tomorrow.

At present, because of our velocity, I will be replacing the release
date on http://opencast.jira.com/wiki/display/MH/Release+1.4 with a
target of "Ongoing".  We will continue working on this release to the
best of our abilities, and aim to have it out sometime in the fall.  If
your organization has been on the fence and thinking about contributing,
now would be an excellent time to start.  I am sure there will be much
discussion of this at the Unconference, but we have a welcoming
community that's looking for new blood even if you can't make it.  Feel
free to send an email to our email lists, or hop on to IRC. There are
usually several developers online who can offer if not real-time, then
fast answers to any questions you might have.

Release Manager (1.3, 1.4), QA Manager
Greg Logan

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