hi, I think we're almost ready to get 1.8.1rc1 out. Which means about two weeks before pygame 1.8.1 is released (assuming no problems found).
The main things I can think of left to do at the moment are: - weird crash on windows tests (to do with surflocks or maybe pygame.image.save). If you have anything else you'd like to get in 1.8.1 please let me know. 1.8.1 is mostly a bug release, and the 1.9 release is going to include a whole bunch of new fun stuff. However 1.9 will probably take longer since there's more new stuff to polish up. cu,
