Hello all, I would like to provide a quick alpha1 update, and also explain the current intentions for an alpha2 milestone.
First, their really wasn't enough energy behind alpha1, and that was mostly my fault. As I said in IRC on Friday, I thought I could teach a music camp and still do the same level of RM duties; turns out I could not :) I do appreciate those who were able to put more into alpha1 than I could, and we still made some good strides. You can read all about it here: https://launchpad.net/evergreen/+milestone/2.5.0-alpha1 Nevertheless, for the first time, we took a step or two backwards regarding the number of outstanding tickets. Because I that, I am not really comfortable calling the next milestone beta1, and have instead relabeled it as alpha2. To make room for this extra milestone and still have hope of a September general release, alpha2 will be a very short cycle. The last day to target bugs at alpha2 will be this Friday, 8/16. Then next week will be the commit push, with the goal of having alpha2 wrapped up by 8/23. Finally, at some point this week, I intend to have an actual alpha1 tarball available for download. Please be patient as I learn what is involved in actually packaging a release. As always, feedback and suggestions about the whole release planning process are welcome. Thanks! Dan
