We're getting closer to a 1.9 release.. I agreed to be Release Manager months ago, but then got caught up in other responsibilities and have been slacking in my RM duties. But here's the plan we talked about on IRC/phone today:
* new features: to make the 1.9 train, new features must have a ticket with a patch in the "Review-Needed" state by the end of this weekend (sunday 24-Jul). (review-needed means you can honestly claim that it's ready to be landed). We'll review and land such patches over the following week, finishing by sunday 31-jul. * bug fixes: same deal, but the patch+review-needed deadline is a week later: sunday 31-jul, and we'll finish reviewing+landing them around sunday 7-aug. * assuming I have network access from the hotel I'll be in then, I'll cut a beta1 snapshot on monday 8-aug. We'll get 3+ weeks of testing, iterating on a couple of betas if necessary. * Final release is scheduled for wed 31-aug. (this won't hit Ubuntu's "Oneric Ocelot" feature-freeze on 11-aug, but maybe they'll accept a freeze-exception request, and if not the next release is only 6 months later). I've been out of the loop for a couple of weeks, but the word on the street is that MDMF is probably ready to land, so we expect it to be in 1.9 . We decided that my signed-introducer work needs more attention, so it won't be in 1.9 (but some cleanups/refactorings that prepare for it will be, as well as some other smaller bugfixes). So MDMF will be the core of this release. Note that 1.9 will be able to read and modify MDMF mutable files, but it won't create them by default (you'll have to flip some extra switches for that). As with all new compatibility-impacting features, our plan is to get a new-feature-tolerant release out in the wild for a cycle or two before switching on that feature by default. We'll consider making MDMF the default in 2.0 or 2.1 (assuming that we don't make a 1.10 first). So, if you've got favorite bugs or features, get them ready for review pronto! There are 10 tickets in the 1.9 milestone in the review-needed state[1] (including MDMF), and we're hoping to land them all. We'll try our hardest to land any new ones that get a patch ready by the deadlines. Patch away! -Brian [1]: http://tahoe-lafs.org/trac/tahoe-lafs/query?status=assigned&status=new&status=reopened&keywords=~review-needed&milestone=1.9.0&group=milestone&col=id&col=summary&col=keywords&col=status&col=owner&col=type&col=priority&col=time&col=changetime&desc=1&order=changetime _______________________________________________ tahoe-dev mailing list [email protected] http://tahoe-lafs.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tahoe-dev
